Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combination of putrefying fish and raw sewage. Heyerdahl hopes that his experience will stir the U.N. to propose new international regulations to keep the oceans clean. "Modern man seems to believe that he can get everything he needs from the corner drugstore," says the explorer. "He doesn't understand that everything has a source in the land or sea, and that he must respect those sources. If the indiscriminate pollution continues, we will be sawing off the branch we are sitting...
...moving into more high school organizing. When high school kids see meetings with Marines, radicals, and commies (that's us) that all agree on the war, they understand that there's something wrong with their analysis...
...will say it's hard to understand...
...many and time-consuming phases. Modern love affairs are reminiscent, according to Sebastian de Grazia, of business agreements: "No frills, no flowers, no time wasted on elaborate compliments, verses and lengthy seductions, no complications, and no scenes, please." Those who complain that girls these days are "easy" fail to understand that in a hectic age girls must accelerate to save time for both themselves and their male friends. People have not stopped making love any more than they have stopped eating. But-to extend the surprisingly adequate parallel with the joys of gastronomy-less time is devoted to both preparation...
...EXPERIENCE: A tourist need no longer content himself with enjoying what he sees. He can give himself a feeling of really using his time by taking pictures. It is easy to understand why love is so vulnerable to competition if we reflect that we are spending time on only one person and cannot even take photographs of the occasion...