Word: socialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor of Social Anthropology University of Sydney
...crime, but they also have an extraordinarily high literacy rate (more than 98%), a topflight university (coming soon: a $200,000 East-West Cultural Exchange Center), a fine art academy and a symphony orchestra; and bustling new suburban complexes, studded with ranch houses. They appreciate some of the typical social aspects of U.S. mainland life as well: they love baseball, guzzle more soda pop and eat more hot dogs than the people of any other state...
Oren Ethelbert Long, 70, U.S. Senator. A Kansas-born farm boy, Oren Long progressed from a one-room schoolhouse in Earlton to Tennessee's Johnson Bible College (Disciples of Christ) and the University of Michigan. He sailed to Hilo on Big Island in 1917 to become a social worker. Five years later he returned to the mainland to earn his second master's degree, in education at Columbia's Teachers College, then hurried back to the territory. For the next 22 years Long served ably in Hawaii's educational system, rose from high school principal...
...Finally, in a frantic outburst, you claim that the M.D.C., "in an appalling example of un-Americanism,... handed over a quarter of a million dollars of tax-money (and plenty more to come) to a group of the socially prominent, and those who hope to achieve social prominence by fooling around in the theatre--at the city's expense." Not only is this statement unwarranted, but it is also patently libelous; and it would serve you right to have a defamation suit tossed in your lap. Neither the C.D.F., Group 20, nor any other local drama group is concerned with...
...symbol in a haystack ("French bread means somebody for dinner"). He makes nurses and vice presidents and suburbanites speak with tape-recorded fidelity and occupational rightness. And his multiple flashbacks rarely loom up like detour signs. Unfortunately, mannerisms do not make the man, and Novelist Birmingham's deft social observations lack the probing roots of Marquand's social experience...