Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trol showed that students have nearly three-quarters of all accidents; house wives account for only 11%. Younger skiers tend to push themselves beyond their capabilities. Dr. Seymour Epstein, a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts, profiled the accident-prone skier: he is more daring, more boastful and more absent-minded on the slopes than...
...down in the street. Thin urban, and afflicted with nervous habits, the reader has to "put on spectacles" (and, with rare exceptions, defective in such natural endowments, he does wear spectacles) to reduce the blur which contemplation of the world produces. In literature there is an order which is absent elsewhere; in the poem, stanzas erect an imagined realm exclusive of chaos. The reader, whose desperate activities I've compared to those of an addict, turns to the Cantos with regret; he would rather read the measured lines of Pushkin...
...late Albeit Einstein, there were bits of less technical information to be gleaned: the author of E=m 2 ate eggs and drank tomato juice (he spilled some on his work) and bequeathed to history an unexplained (and here freely translated) bit of verse: I shan't be absent, little snookie, Though I am not a sugar cookie; What life has brought you up to now May sweeten the farewell somehow...
Grappling veterans Dan Blakinger (118) and Richie Starr (190) should notch solid wins against both opposition. Crimson starter Paul Dowling (unlimited) may be absent due to National Guard duty, so Carl Culig will be ready to wrestle in his place...
...amazing thing is that Lessing takes herself seriously. The language of "Report" may be pseudo-scientific, but mock-serious it is not. Lessing slaps on truism after truism with the plaster knife of all her wellworn and well meaning liberal convictions. Once again the saving grace of humor is absent where it is most needed...