Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symbolic gifts at her coronation hints at her ancient ancestry. But the real proof comes when we find that the function served by The Girl in our culture is just as much a 'religious' one as that served by Cybele in hers." Just as the Virgin in the 12th and 13th centuries sustained the ideals of the age, "so The Girl symbolizes the values and aspirations of a consumer society. (She is crowned not in the political capital, notice, but in Atlantic City or Miami Beach, centers associated with leisure and consumption.)" Not that Baptist Cox identifies...
...system working, each state must pass enabling legislation and vote its share of the money. Eight have done so: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma. Washington, West Virginia, Maryland and New York, plus the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Kerr-Mills back ers say the law will eventually cover 2,500,000 old persons, cost the Federal Government $200 million a year...
William H. Hastie, judge, Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, first Negro governor of the Virgin Islands LL.D...
...poet, Yeats was like an element in nature. In old age, he loved to tell the tale of an ancient sage (possibly William Butler Yeats) who was asked, "Who are your Masters?" And he replied, "The wind and the harlot, the virgin and the child, the lion and the eagle...
...Russia came back with 550 more tractors, 350 harvesters and an appropriate number of technicians for an immense virgin-lands program...