Word: tags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carry out the duties of a citizen and to receive in return a receipt on a neat styrene card with one's name on it certifying, so to speak, one's right to exist. What satisfaction I take in appearing the first day to get my auto tag and brake sticker! I subscribe to Consumer Reports and as a consequence I own a first-class television set, an all-but-silent air conditioner and a very long-lasting deodorant. My armpits never stink. I pay attention to all spot announcements on the radio about mental health, the seven...
...definable industry, which in 1958 produced goods and services worth $136.4 billion. Machlup breaks it down into five subindustries with 52 branches. He includes not only publishing, broadcasting, research and development, but even religion, a $2.5 billion item for everything from clergy to construction. Machlup even puts a price tag on mothers of preschoolers : the pay they give up by staying home, or roughly $4.4 billion. All forms of education (including mothers) cost $60 billion, or almost 13% of the 1958 gross national product. The total knowledge industry, says Machlup. accounted for 29% of the G.N.P.-and is now growing...
...fascist" and "proto-Communist" Freudians have found in them classical symptoms of angst; theologians have seen a cold and brilliant statement of Kierkegaard's "either/or" maxim and Karl Earth's "theology of crisis.'' And like Freud's, his name has become an easy tag, employed by essayists and parlor annotators: Kafkaesque now suggests the small man confronted by a high and nameless menace, the humble man, anxious to cause no trouble, who finds that his heart has withered, the defeated man who wanders without hope through the streets of rotting cities...
Most of the game was spent by Crimson forwards playing a version of tag with the slower and less skillful Huskies...
...bull's-eye causes Zor to lunge toward the nursery-school St. George and launch one of his projectiles with a primordial roar. King Zor is already stirring up controversy among disapproving parents, who claim the toy teaches children combat. Glass disagrees, calls it a game of mechanized tag: "It is better to give a child an outlet for his combative instincts than to suppress them. He feels like a knight fighting a dragon...