Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gerontocratic order is undermined by a feeling that the older generation has disgraced itself (deauthorization). The scandal of racial discrimination, for example, deauthorized the older generation in the early sixties and brought into existence the New Left. The debacle in Vietnam, I suspect, more significantly enforced deauthorization in every region of the country...
...Scandal and Absenteeism. It was the state of Sam Yorty's city hall that caught up with him. His second term was tainted by scandals, including indictments of five Yorty-appointed city commissioners on charges of bribery or criminal conflict of interest. (Three were convicted, two await trial.) Angelenos were unhappy with the mayor's frequent absences visited more than a dozen foreign countries-while the nation's third city (pop. 2,800,000) was wracked by crises. Los Angeles Negroes (18% of the voters) united against Yorty for his failure to grapple with racial issues that...
...impression of a sordid personal life is an excellent ploy. Arrange for a friend to telephone at the office, suggests Peter, and then within earshot of several co-workers cry out, "Don't tell my wife. If she finds out this will kill her." The hint of scandal ought to scotch any chance of promotion...
Such picayune problems as teachers up in arms over pensions and a highway department scandal can have an unsettling effect on a legislature. Last week, however, lawgivers of the sovereign state of Oklahoma laid aside these minor matters to concentrate on a historic decision. Without a dissenting nay, the assembly decreed that the collared lizard, known as "the mountain boomer" amid the hills of Ouachita and Wichita, will henceforth be designated as the Sooner State's official reptile...
...experienced as objective entities. These pseudo-objects are reifications of the fundamental structures of experience which are shared by men as a result of their socialization. Laing conceptualizes two of these structures as Them and Us. Them is the sense of shame, the dynamism behind gossip and scandal. An individual often acts not by his own values of feelings but by what he experiences as Their values, values outside him. Us is the sense of group loyalty. Groups depend on unified experience, on the internalization of common social modes of being in their members. This internalization produces a sense...