Word: tokenisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crippled children, and Coca-Cola will send its electronically croaking bullfrog to Caroline Kennedy, who said she wanted it. Many of the buildings have been offered free to anyone willing to take them apart and put them together again. The Cockaigne Ski Center near Jamestown N.Y., paid a token $3,000 for Austria's handsome Alpine-style pavilion, but will have to spend about $190,000 to transport and reassemble it. The Christian Science pavilion will be shipped 4,650 miles via the Panama Canal to Poway, Calif., where it will become a church. Cost...
...Democrats is to provide a free, enthusiastic force to man mimeo machines, to distribute leaflets, to babysit for voting mothers, and to secure the young lovelies in straw hats and striped blazers who decorate every campaign bandwagon. The rhetoric of their gatherings is usually cliched and the issues only token...
...well-ordered society, with equal restraint on government regimentation and private "stomach filling and greed." The Saxon farmers interrupted Erhard neither for catcalls nor clapping, but they chuckled each time he lit another Black Wisdom cigar, and at the end presented him with a piglet as a good-luck token. Such appreciative receptions greeted der Dicke wherever he went. In three days of whistle-stopping by train, auto, helicopter and frigate in Saxony, Schles-wig-Holstein and on the island of Helgoland, his audiences totaled well over 100,000, not only in rural areas, which are normally favorable...
Larry Robinson, a graduate student, opened the meeting with a discussion of the extent of North Vietnamese infiltration into the South. "Until recent American bombing sorties, the Viet Cong received only token support from the North," he said...
...through all of Dumas, he should try a Du Maurier. For the habitual nonreader to leap into Finnegans Wake or Wittgenstein is almost as unseemly and possibly as dangerous as it is for a middle-aged stockbroker to demonstrate push-ups at a party. By the same token, the would-be title-dropper should stay firmly away from The Golden Bough, the Aeneid, Kierkegaard, The Wealth of Nations, Rousseau, Thucydides, The Origin of Species, Teilhard de Chardin, and any other reading that assistant professors of English call "seminal...