Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...survey, "is the rise-and the admission of that rise-in what would surely have been considered highly serious moral infractions only a short time ago." The number of people who say that they know someone who commits adultery has risen from 24% to 36% since 1964; 15% now-v. 10% then-virtually admit to instances of adultery in their own family. In other areas, 13% know someone whose child uses marijuana, 59% know someone who drinks too much, 22% know someone who gambles too much, and 11%-or one out of every nine Americans-know someone...
Along with perennial front-runner Truman, other favorites for this year's awards are poetess Marianne Moore, former secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, and New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay...
...have felt for some time that the real issue being argued between the mature younger generation and the immature older generation is simply life v. death. Nowhere has this sad conclusion been more vividly and clearly illustrated than in the recent clash at Berkeley over the "People's Park...
Fine Longhand. Last week the Senator made his move. Sirhan's jury had voted the death penalty on April 23, and Superior Court Judge Herbert V. Walker was considering a motion to reduce the sentence. Kennedy drafted a plea for mercy in his fine longhand. He sent copies to Ethel, Sisters Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, and his mother, Rose. They had discussed the matter before; all approved the text. Then Ted sent his original copy to Judge Walker. "My brother was a man of love and sentiment and compassion," he wrote. "He would not have wanted his death...
...students for the first time grasped how a book is constructed. Once summing up the Soviet novel of social realism, he acted out the vibrant love story of two jackhammer operators who said I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-l-l-l-l-l-o-o-o-v-v-v-e-e-y-y-o-o-u-u-u to each other to the gyrations of their drills...