Word: customs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyway? In fact, a woman's sexual desire may continue for years after menopause. In men, the desire may thrive until an extraordinary age. In 1583, an Englishman named Thomas Parr was found guilty of committing adultery at the age of 100 and did penance, according to the custom of the time, by wearing a white sheet at the door of the church. Legend has it that Parr remarried at the age of 120 and had children by his second wife. Teb Sharmat, a lively farmer in the Caucasus, took a third wife-who was 50-when...
Even today in some less developed countries, May and December marry as a matter of course. A census about 30 years ago in India listed nearly 400,000 widows under the age of 15. The custom of purchasing infants as future wives persists in parts of Africa, even though the mores are changing rapidly. Somewhat more conservatively, Chinese tradition dictates that a husband should be twice his wife's age plus one year...
Norman Dine, 60, the insomniac proprietor of a New Jersey store called the "Sleep Center," provides his clients with custom tape-recorded exhortations from their minister or psychiatrist. One nagged, "You hate to face reality because you think you don't measure up. It's absurd to dwell on something like this." Of course, many iron-willed morning veterans rely on nothing more complicated than putting the alarm clock across the room. But if that fails, for $384, Dine sells an ejecting bed. At the proper ungodly hour, it catapults its owner upright...
...junta officers have finally ordered an end to the fun. Appalled by what they termed "this barbaric custom," they decreed that anyone who "offends public sentiment by destroying or damaging movable objects" may now be forcibly cooled off with up to six months in jail...
CONGRESS is a creature of custom whose membership, unlike that of the executive branch, alters only gradually over the decades. Abrupt reaction is as alien to Capitol Hill as to a three-toed sloth. Yet the divisions and defeats of the Democrats in 1968 were bound to make a heavy mark on the 91st Congress, which assembled last week as a Republican prepared to take over the White House. The Democratic Party, which has ruled Capitol Hill for most of the past 40 years, seemed not only to have lost its old suzerainty over labor, the South and the minority...