Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many psychics and their followers believe that paranormal powers may be dependent on mysterious auras or "energy flows," phenomena that they say can be recorded by Kirlian photography. The technique, developed in the late 1930s by Russian Electronics Expert Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina, involves introducing a small amount of high-voltage, high-frequency current into the subject and recording the subsequent discharge on photographic film. The result is a photograph showing an "energy body"?a weird aura?around the plant, animal or human part being photographed...
...full shock -numbness, perplexity." Typically, a bewildered airline executive in Manhattan complains: "My salary has doubled in the past five years. I can't ask the company for more, they've been good to me already. But I can't keep up with expenses. The 1930s were pretty bad and we were poor, but at least the price of apples stayed the same...
...failure of the nation's leaders to demonstrate that they are in control of the various crises causes some political scientists to draw an analogy with the early 1930s. "We've got a deep sense of inadequate leadership," says Harvard Political Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, "so once again it is a ripe time for a charismatic leader." It seems doubtful, however, that America will turn to a demagogue for salvation. Men on horseback have never done well in the U.S., and there is nobody tall in the saddle in sight...
...corner, where the street intersected the chief thoroughfare of the quarter, three old men sat in a doorstoop. One wore a huge blue overcoat whose holes would lead one to believe that it dated back to his service in the Chaco War that Bolivia fought with Paraguay in the 1930s. His nose was of the typical Aymaran variety--long and hooked--which lent a slight touch of brutality to his appearance. As he saw me pass and glance at him and his friends, the ex-soldier grabbed a bottle the man next to him was raising to his lips...
Other people, in other places and at other times, have faced much greater problems and surmounted them. President Allende once remarked that he had been expelled from his university's socialist organization in the early 1930s for refusing to adopt all of its positions. He had great doubts about his future at the time, the companero presidente recalled; a progressive government had just fallen, he had been repudiated by his own friends, and he did not think socialism would ever come to Chile...