Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bags have social significance? Los Angeles Psychiatrist Jerome Jacobi sees the trend toward handbags for men as good and healthy. "It could indicate," he explains, "the disintegration of the more superficial aspects of role differentiation." One may wonder why that is healthy. Clinical Psychologist Leonard Olinger regards the fad as "an overreaction that tends to deny the real differences between the sexes, just as in the past we have been forced to be terribly different when there isn't that much difference. The truth lies somewhere in between...
...communities who plunge most heedlessly into amphetamines and barbiturates, the National Institute of Mental Health this spring began a levelheaded information campaign in the mass media. One of its ads pictures a litter of cocktail glasses, pill bottles and an ashtray overflowing with cigarette butts, and asks parents: "Ever wonder why your kid doesn't take you seriously when you lecture him about drugs?" A poster about drugs in psychedelic colors asks kids: "Will they turn you on?Or will they turn...
...that the makers of this year's new situation comedies didn't innovate. They invented the instant rerun. NBC's The Debbie Reynolds Show, for example, is an instant rerun of I Love Lucy, and small wonder; it is the handiwork of Lucy Producer Jess Oppenheimer. The only reason Debbie doesn't scheme to get into show business like her husband is that Debbie's husband Lew (Don Chastain) happens to be in the newspaper business. The only reason Debbie does not pose as a drummer auditioning for a band is that she happens...
...against the Jews. Everyone more or so less expects the Arabs to be "fanatics," so that any real or apparent concession is welcomed with wonder and relief; but the Jews are expected to be more reasonable, so that any intransigence on their part is regarded with special impatience. Moreover, Israel is a Western, industrial power and its precise and powerful strikes against guerrilla forces?no matter how much modern equipment the Arab nations have received from Russia?somehow make the struggle seem unequal...
...apprehensive entering student this is the real Commencement. But it is not an auspicious beginning at all. At the least, the new Harvard man must wonder and worry about what his venture into highest education will bring him. After all, learning and frustration often cross. At the same time, he is terribly aware that his future depends on the unpredictable actions of Major General Hershey and Congressman Vinson of Georgia and, of course. Premier Joseph Stalin. No, this is not a beginning to crow about, hardly a start to the supposedly leisurely, satisfying process of learning...