Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manners of the urban singles scene can be as perplexing as the mating dances of the graylag goose. Psychotherapist Al Manaster observed a singles bar called Butch Maguire's in Chicago and detected four distinct sets of rules at work. "In the front section near the window, it is the garden of narcissism," he explains. "People go there just to be seen, not to make out. At the bar there is heavy hitting. You stand there to get picked up. The pinball section is heavy macho, with horseplay between the sexes. In the back room is backgammon, where the more...
There are four men and two women in the troupe, and they slip with disconcerting ease from dance patterns in which they are sexually distinct figures, to movements in which they are asexual hominoids, and then further, to strange massings in which we see not figures but a wholly unfamiliar tree of elbows and buttocks, then a viscous fluidity of flesh that breaks like a wave, then a great, undifferentiated lump that slams itself about on the sculptor's table, startling us with its momentary resemblances to beasts remembered from dreams...
...many graduate students have found, different departments have distinct philosophies, characters and budgets. "Junior faculty in different departments are treated very differently," one assistant professor in Government says. Some receive office space, telephones, and efficient secretaries to field their calls, Some are invited to attend departmental meetings while others are discouraged, and some receive much more monetary help with research than others, he says...
...farmers who make U.S. agriculture the nation's most efficient and productive industry and by far the biggest force holding down the trade deficit. Revolutionary changes are sweeping the croplands, making agriculture an increasingly capital-intensive, hightechnology, mass-production business. As a result, U.S. farmers are dividing into two distinct classes. Small farmers, who do not have the technical expertise, are rapidly leaving the land. Large farmers, like Benedict, who know how to use credit and the latest in agricultural science, are gaining an ever greater share of the market. They produce most of the food that the U.S. eats...
Such tensions might have destroyed him. Instead, they lent rare power to his fiction. He learned to see two distinct ways of life. One belonged to the smug, narrow, easily shocked circle populated by his mother and her friends. The other possessed his imagination: total friendship, passionate, uninhibited and free, with a like spirit. Artistically, Forster did not want to choose, to become simply a novelist of manners or a poet of pleasures. The motto of his fourth novel, Howards End (1910), captured both the dilemma and the hope: "Only connect...