Word: breakup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-Goldwater sentiments, warmly welcomed Barry into his state, posed proudly with him, insisted that he couldn't pick a candidate until he saw what the G.O.P. platform had to say. What overriding problem did Romney want the Platform Committee to tackle first? Said Romney: "The breakup of family life, leading to increased juvenile delinquency and other social evils...
Actually, there had been two watersheds-the Civil War being the first. It was after the Civil War that industrial money-"brazen new money," as Edith Newbold Jones Wharton called it -began to change the face of New York. Wharton was the first American novelist to use the breakup of preindustrial American society as the stuff of fiction-Sinclair Lewis, in recognition of the fact, dedicated Babbitt to her-but she was in some ways the last to understand it. Her best pre-World War I novels (The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country) were groping toward...
Beauty Bounty. Nor is the change only skin-or even bikini-deep. Says Chief Editor F. W. Koebner of Elegante Welt, Germany's leading fashion and society magazine: "The breakup and reorganization of German society has given the individual German girl the material and psychological means to become beautiful." She has rejected her parents' ideals and escaped the self-sufficient autocracy that used to be family life in Germany. By contrast with her insular parents, she is worldly, well-traveled, avid for the fads and fashions of other nations. She has a new sense of identity and self...
Alaskans always look forward to the big spring breakup, the time of the thaw that signals the end to hibernation and the beginning of the growing and fishing season. Along a corrugated street in downtown Anchorage last week a sign was posted on a store front: CLOSED DUE TO EARLY BREAKUP...
State-owned Lufthansa prefers to or der proven U.S. and British planes. The industry, which used to be a government-directed monopoly, has also suffered from its postwar breakup into seven independent and fiercely competitive companies, none of which is strong enough alone to finance major developments. And the situation has not been helped by the refusal of the old-time individualistic planemakers to accept the modern concept of team design; the traditionalists believe, as does Pioneer Designer Willy Messerschmitt, now 65, that "the old hares can do the job better...