Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition, told the group in Chicago that soft living has left the American male in "absolutely miserable" physical shape. He then cited a "shocking mortality rate" from heart disease and laid the basic blame on insufficient exercise...
...attitudes, the state of knowledge of the day - sometimes innocent, sometimes opinionated, sometimes prescient, sometimes wrong but very often right. The first four CAPSULES, for 1923, 1929, 1941 and 1950, will go on sale this week in book stores, variety stores and newsstands for $1.65 each in quality soft cover...
...mention of the subject makes police chiefs turn purple and starts manufacturers pleading for secrecy. But there is no longer any hiding the fact that an epidemic of parking-meter jamming is sweeping the nation. Behind it are the flip-top cans now being used for beer and soft drinks. Each comes with a small pull-ring, which, when twisted free, is near enough to the size of a nickel to fit into a parking meter, either turning it on or jamming...
Early on, taut, angular editing and a brilliantly elliptical, soft-spoken narrative create some sense of frightening possibility. But, at the climactic revival scene, as Jones steps forward to shake hands with the Almightly and the band thunders out Deutschland iiber Alles, the message becomes childishly explicit-and essentially absurd...
...best; for sheer sensuous serenity it would be hard to beat. Yesterday's players were joined by thirty-odd members of the Summer School Chorus, well prepared by Professor Harold C. Schmidt. The concertmistress solo fiddling wandered off pitch a bit, and the orchestra in general never got as soft as it should have until the final cadence; but there were delectable sounds all the same, and of the five vocal soloists Vicki Hall's soprano was simply ravishing...