Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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A related danger is to romanticize and sentimentalize the family. From the Greek tragedians to the modern psychoanalysts, men have known that the family, along with being a source of immense comfort, is also a place of savage battles, rivalries, and psychological if not physical mayhem. Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing says...
If the experts have their way, the nuclear family can be further strengthened in the future. Margaret Mead, for example, believes that many bad starts can be avoided if marriages can be postponed. She proposes a kind of universal national service that will take adolescents out of the nuclear home...
Productivity will show gains largely because companies, having learned to live with less manpower, will be slow to take back the laid-off workers and executives. At the same time, there will probably be a reduction in the hiring of the newer, younger workers who have always provided the fresh...
For all this attention, the consumer has turned into something of a Scrooge. Even The Salvation Army is having trouble prying dimes out of him. In department stores, cash-register tapes for the Christmas season are running scarcely above last year's cheerless levels. The National Retail Merchants Association...
For years Shirley MacLaine has starred in a series of hectic comedies and adventures, often playing the heart-of-gold hooker (Irma La Douce, Two Mules for Sister Sara). Now, in a jaunty memoir, she puts forth the proposition that her own life has really been a lot more interesting...