Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There will be changes at home, too. "Folk-art of all kinds has a pleasantly second-class air. Looms should be brought to cottage doors, old men should plait osiers in full view of the traffic, and smithies must have wide-open doors. The riding of bicycles by royalty should be introduced gradually, in an unobtrusive way. Rioting by students at universities is already well under way, but there is still too much namby-pambyism. The use of stones and tear-gas by the respective sides is overdue. One or two professors must be killed." Parliament needs shaking up: "There...
Gunther remembers himself as "an appalling, monstrous child who wanted to do it all." In the Lake View High School magazine, he broke into type at 16 with an essay on the Russian Revolution. At 20, English Major Gunther wrote 20 U.S. publishers that he would review their books in a literary column he had started in the University of Chicago's Daily Maroon, followed up by soliciting puffs on the column from such critical luminaries as H. L. Mencken and Harry Hansen...
...would return to President Eliot's "minimum" faith of "love and service to one's neighbor" and war against "the evils which afflict humanity." These tenets he would buttress with President Emeritus James B. Conant's basic answer to the challenge of the Soviet or fascist view of life-a faith in a "wide diversity of beliefs and the tolerance of this diversity...
...bopping clubs," the teen-age street-fighting gangs. They call themselves Centurians, Demons, Villains, Stonekillers and Sand Street Angels, organize themselves with the precision of military combat teams, with an officer hierarchy (president, war counselor, armorer, etc.). Their code of ethics is a distorted boy's-eye view of the underworld, laced with real touches of bravado and evil that are gleaned from television and the movies-and from relatives who have firsthand experience. They prowl the dark streets, kill and maim one another, dabble in narcotics, drink themselves into a rage with cheap wine called "sneaky pete...
...profitable monkey business was monkeyed with. The Indian government ruled that only monkeys weighing more than 6 Ibs. (v. the old 4-to-6-lb. standard) can be shipped, and only at a rate of five a crate, compared to the previous dozen. The government's official view was that smaller monkeys are not necessary for polio vaccine. But unofficially, the reason was increasing religious pressure from India's monkey deifiers. plus a dark fear that other countries really use the monkeys for rocket and radiation research. Whatever the reason, by last week the market was effectively killed...