Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NATURAL HISTORY OF OUR WORLD: THE TIME OF MAN (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Man's biological and social evolution is the focus of this special, produced in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History...
...their prudery, the Victorians were considerably more willing than modern men to discuss ideas-such as social distinctions, morality and death -that have become almost unmentionable. Nineteenth century gentlewomen whose daughters had "limbs" instead of suggestive "legs" did not find it necessary to call their maids "housekeepers," nor did they bridle at referring to "upper" or "lower" classes within society. Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian could talk without embarrassment about "sin," a word that today few but clerics use with frequency or ease. It is even becoming difficult to find a doctor, clergyman or undertaker (known as a "mortician...
...retreat into a kind of isolationism, stressing other-worldly concerns and a preoccupation with individual conversion. Last week in Minneapolis, at the first U.S. Congress on Evangelism, the nation's evangelical churchmen boldly broke out of that shell and challenged their churches to rejoin the battle for social reform...
...want to get in touch with anyone of a particular flavor and can't judge adequately from the Freshmen Register, you should go to certain addresses. Peaches center about dorm living rooms, the Spa, Widener reading room, and organized social functions. Chocolates are upstairs in their rooms, in Mallinckrodt, in Hilles Library, in the University Restaurant, or eating early dinner. Limes are also in Widener (although more likely in the stacks than the reading room), in cafeterias and coffee shops, in the Fogg, and in people's apartments...
...grass as one way to defuse revolutions.) Consequently, grass is plentiful, and cheap, mostly sold by Cliffies who don't need the money because their fathers live in Westchester and have all the money they need. But even drugs are becoming passe. They used to be the major social determinant of freshman year. There were those in the dorm who turned on and those who didn't and neither group really understood the other's existence. By now, that's all social history. Even trying to discover whether or not your proctor smokes is frivolous, since of course he does...