Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manifestation takes on a different importance when seen as part of a national shift in sentiment. Such is the subject of shelters-a year ago the disdained preoccupation of a few earnest civil defense types; then the subject of morbid jokes (betokening an increased preoccupation) and now increasingly a topic of lively dinner table concern. This week TIME'S cover story is devoted to shelters, an impressive piecing together of a nation's bewildered discussion and preparation for what it once thought too horrible to contemplate. The horror is no less, but it at last is being contemplated...
...course, is Topic A, and a new recording on the subject is Live with Love, starring British Psychologist Keith Cammeron, soon to be released in the U.S. On the album jacket there is a woodland scene that includes one full-breasted wench, two nuzzling birds and three enormous bees. Inside is the sort of sex-education lecture that would weight the eyelids of a twelve-year-old ("Let's begin with the egg..."), redeemed now and then by snippets of fascinating information, such as the fact that the male testicle, in Cammeron's words, is actually "a mass...
...read, because it presents a cultural point of view. I suspect that Jews who come to Harvard are unlike members of other American minority cultures in that they often rediscover the value of their heritage here. I'm not talking now about a belief in God (an embarrassing topic at Harvard); I'm simply concerned with cultural identity. For other groups--like Catholics--Harvard is still an engine of mindless assimilation, cutting people off from their past...
...have little to talk about. It surprised me that the Congolese didn't question us about America, but my own questions ceased their steady flow as I became increasingly leary of offending my hosts. We held discussions every second week in which the students of one country proposed a topic for general discussion. But these were characterized by a lack of enthusiasm. Clearly the Congolese did not want to talk politics--they were particularly reluctant to discuss their government's fragile political set up--but no other topic seemed to interest them either...
Ghosts is haunted by a successful past. The plight of the playwright as social reformer is to turn one generation's problem into the next generation's platitude. When Ibsen took syphilis as a topic in 1881, the subject was novel, courageous and scandalous. In the era of antibiotics, it will scarcely lift an eyebrow, let alone carry a play. Other Ibsen shockers also qualify as placid truisms today: that a pastor can be a sanctimonious fraud; that mothers sometimes love their sons not wisely but too well; that in Paris, artists and models sometimes live together unwed...