Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Batman and Robin are denounced as a pair of latent homosexuals. Why do teen-agers idolize the Beatles? Explains Joyce Brothers, formerly a TV "authority" and now a columnist on psychological matters: "It's because of their 'Oliver' haircuts and too-short jackets. Oliver Twist, you will recall, was an orphan. By embracing a quartet of orphans as heroes, our teen-agers achieve two unconscious goals. They symbolically 'kill off' the adult generation. They show how neglected and misunderstood they believe themselves...
Simmering Summer. Bitter postmortems pinned the blame variously on the Senate's Democrats, one-third of whom voted against cloture; on the Republicans, two-thirds of whom did the same; on President Johnson, who did not twist arms with his usual vigor to line up support; on civil rights leaders, who fell to quarreling among themselves, failed to lobby effectively...
...unconventional" biology tutorial is making its debut this week, but with a new twist...
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...there is a new twist this fall. Tutors will write an evaluation of each of their students. George Wald, chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Tutorial, has told concentrators that "the department will take special cognizance of this [evaluation] in writing recommendations to medical and graduate schools and in awarding honors...