Word: playground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individual. People are rarely motivated to make important personal choices by abstract arguments. "A teeming population" and the possibility of toxic air and spoiled natural resources are less real than the mother's desire to remain a healthy and happy companion to her children, the closing of a nearby playground to erect an apartment building, or the prohibitive costs of higher education. In a recent poll published in Eugenics Quarterly, only two per cent of women practicing family limitation did so for "general social reasons." The pain of an unwanted child is personal. 30-33 per cent of all lower...
...million Columbia gymnasium was planned for an area that many of these youths use as a playground...
Chris "Rabbit" Gallagher, Harvard's volatile center, grew up playing playground basketball where games could more aptly be called ten man rumbles...
...they may admit that TV can expose new channels of experience, there is still the lingering fear that some day Video Boy is going to tie a towel around his neck and try to fly off the garage roof like Bat Fink; or, if somebody crosses him in the playground, he may poke his fingers in his eyes in the style of the Three Stooges. But mostly, with misty recollections of taffy pulls and swimming holes, parents are bothered by a vague feeling that, somehow, as one mother puts it, "life should be lived, not watched...
...much energy into Fridays she had none left for the following Thursdays. One Thursday she fainted. So she said, Goodbye Playground! Decided against becoming a princess. Now she lives with a Syrian under a stairwell. They keep three cats and nineteen children. The cats, of course, have priority seat-wise in the car when they're vacationing, but the children can come too if they like. It's all extremely laissez faire...