Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Short Circuit. While much of the FCC's impotence can be attributable to congressional and industry manhandling, it is also true that the commissioners themselves have short-circuited their own power. One staff member calls the commissioners "the Magnificent Seven," referring sarcastically to the beleaguered gunfighters in the western movie of that title...
...policyholder, U. L. Fletcher, injured his back three years ago on the job lifting a 361-lb. bale of scrap rubber. He had a $15,000 disability policy with Western National Life Insurance Co. of Texas, and at first the company agreed to pay him $150 a month for at least two years. Then it reversed itself and stopped payments on grounds that his injury was really an illness. Wearing a brace, Korean War Veteran Fletcher went to court to ask for $50,000 as compensation and $1,000,000 in punitive damages under the outrage law. The jury...
This play by Jakov Lind, an Austrian Jew who now lives in London, is a brutal, bitter, boring and unsubtle savaging of German-or is it Western?-culture. Fortunately, it is also a brilliant production, supervised by Central Park's old Shakespeare wallah, Joseph Papp...
...western societies as late as the 18th century, and in many societies even today, the transition from childhood to adulthood has been early, brief, and coercively controlled by inflexible rites of passage or apprenticeships. In these societies, adolescence, as we define it, rarely can occur. One of the extraordinary psychological achievements of industrial and post-industrial societies has been the gradual opening of an opportunity for a real adolescence to a great number of less privileged and less talented young men and women, with all of the rich possibilities for continued development this opening brings. What we have...
...efforts to ease the U.S. balance of payments problem, the Johnson Administration proposed legislation several weeks ago that would make it more difficult for U.S. citizens to travel outside the Western Hemisphere. Now, in the same cause, the Administration is proposing to make it easier for foreign travelers to come...