Word: extroverted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting into sociologically fascinating trouble. That is, weekenders are almost everyone not in jail. Most weekenders, Author Gunther reports, embrace the Fun Mystique. The weekender's "selfesteem depends on his success in having, or at least demonstrating, fun. The weekender likes to be thought of as an extrovert who lives in a loud fast whirl of activities. Anything less is felt to be almost if not quite pathological . . . Dr. James A. Wylie of Boston University has studied family recreation and found that the typical family has 20 or 30 different activities to keep it busy on weekends. Some have...
Henry and Anne settled into their roles as well-gilded Corinthian pillars of U.S. society, but as time went on, the tension between Henry's extrovert, huggy-bear conviviality and Anne's cool, tight-lipped dignity became more and more obtrusive...
...rough exterior. The layout is more practical than pleasing, the machinery unconcealed, and the paint- work conservative and drab. Combined with this rugged appearance is an assertiveness in advertising, a rather crude claim to offer what is at once the cheapest and the best. The organization is extrovert, outgoing and inquisitive." Male Superiority. Quite the opposite is j the female corporation. "Its factory buildings are prettily sited and smartly kept with pastel shades in the paintwork and flower beds near the gate. There can be too much fuss over details, an insistence on exact procedure and an overemphasis...
...half hour or an hour. Some boys are very shy, and I haven't known a great majority of the guys before the interview." Birge wonders, "When you get a guy who doesn't look like much--what to do? Especially if the guy is not an extrovert, and he sits there with his mouth dry and his feet shuffling. He knows his life depends on what you say. I feel for the boys; they're scared. They want to go to Harvard. They're thinking. 'If Birge thinks I'm a jerk, I won't go there...
...Worker-- is not a significant intellectual force. Its compromises with the same American Way that Carey McWilliams speaks of have cut the American Church loose from the main European intellectual currents of Catholic thought. Content with being "one of the three major American creeds," Catholicism here is an activist, extrovert religion, still very mindful of its immigrant and lower class background, and still embarrassed at having to find places for intellectuals...