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...pertinent course of study, promising advancements and salary increase on completion; the family person charged with raising future citizens and leaders intelligently, who blends daily social relations and child development in a weekly 'upper-level' seminar' and finally, the closest approximation to the out worn gadfly images of yore, the person momentarily in transition from one life-stage to another, facing the uncertainties of new directions through pragmatic academic exploration...
...candidate favorable to labor. Meany could make things worse for labor-and the Democrats-by sitting out the election campaign itself. But if the party chose someone who is friendly to the workingman, Meany could well end up mobilizing the AFL-CIO behind the Democratic candidate as of yore...
...gentle pressure of a foot, a twist of the steering wheel and the occasional injection of vital fluids. Those freewheeling days, alas, have passed. As a result of the nation's commendable concern with driver safety, cars are no longer the mute mistresses of yore but have become instead the harridans of the highways, yowling at passengers and refusing orders until they are properly buckled...
...World Turns and The Secret Storm are lineal descendants of the old radio shows. The pauses are still pregnant-but so are the new heroines. And much of the subject matter deserves an R rating. There were no married priests and no abortions in the afternoons of yore...
...every red-blooded American boy who could lay his hands on 10? plunked it down for a Street & Smith pulp called Doc Savage magazine. Now, once a month and at about seven times the price, any red-blooded middle-aged man who pines for the gore of yore can renew his literary acquaintance with derring...