Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's humor may not be much rougher than it was on the American frontier, but it has shed its inhibitions in full public view. Sex is no longer a taboo topic; it is, in fact, one of the commonest. Humor has not only been firmly entrenched in the bedroom, but is increasingly being brought into the bathroom. Even caustic Cartoonist Jules Feiffer says: "It's astounding what's allowable today." The gentle comedies that once titillated the town have been replaced by such farces as What's New Pussycat? and Kiss Me, Stupid, in which...
When Lacouture warms to a topic, he shows a flair for the aphorism. The relationship between France and Indochina, according to Lacouture, had all the psychological complexity of love and hate at the same time. "It was something very troubled, like an old liaison of a man and his mistress...
...Peace Corps: revolution, imperialism, or waste?" is the topic of a discussion to be held at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. Harris Wofford, the Corps' Director of Research, and Frank Mankiewicz, director for Latin America, will join moderator John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and students from Harvard political organization on the panel...
Pandamonium broke loose in my classroom last summer in Charleston, South Carolina, when I introduced this picture as the composition topic for that night. Students quickly added examples: postcards that always showed Negroes dancing and picking cotton and the local paper's policy of printing pictures of Negroes only when they committed a crime...
This is the nation whose intentions are a main topic of speculation in the West, and were frequently invoked at last week's hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (see THE NATION). About to set off its third nuclear blast, supported by a huge army that could bring full-scale war to Southeast Asia if it marched south, Red China is certainly what Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recently called it: "a threat of greatest concern to the U.S." The threat is the more bother some because China's very frustrations make its reactions so odd and unpredictable...