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Word: abyss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monstrous, painful, agonizing, a bottomless abyss of malice, deceit, fraud and greed," said Novelist Taylor Caldwell (Dear and Glorious Physician) of her 72 years on earth. She hoped there was no such thing as reincarnation, she told Occultologist Jess Steam (Edgar Cayce-The Sleeping Prophet), so she wouldn't have to go all through it again. Just to see if it hadn't happened once or twice before, though, they agreed to have her hypnotized. According to Stearn, who has just published a book about the phenomenon (The Search for a Soul), Miss Caldwell began recalling no less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 15, 1973 | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...abyss that separates the facts of the matter and The Crimson version suggests that The Crimson needs to give more thought and care to its journalistic responsibilities. Insofar as its aim was to improve the quality of appointments at Harvard, no one can object. But insofar as the purpose was to reveal alleged in justices and miscarriages, it have worked a little harder, asked a few more questions talked to more people, thought a little longer. The whole business will serve as an object lesson to history majors on how not to do research...

Author: By David S. Landes, | Title: On Tenure at Harvard | 12/19/1972 | See Source »

...Putting Jonathan Livingston Seagull into the hands of the irresponsible masses makes Author Bach a candidate for public spanking. He has simplistically watered down the problem of 20th century man at the edge of the abyss with the admonition to "do your own thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1972 | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...their problems and trying to help one another contact their scattered off spring Only loneliness keeps them together At times tempers flare; class hatred racial prejudices and religious differences contribute to the tense atmosphere. Calisher mocks her characters as "prodigal fathers not received", and dangles them above a generational abyss made up of paradoxes and contradictions based on the dichotomy of young and old, using them to represent all forms of societal and psychological troubles in the world today. Sickle-cell anemia apparently can't be mentioned without bringing in miscegenation, heroin addiction, and the ghetto experience. Twin "babies...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: Caught in the Parent Trap | 10/28/1972 | See Source »

...exact nature of Kissinger's talks with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai was not yet known. But clearly from the kind of treatment Kissinger received, the Chinese considered the visit highly important. Kissinger was installed in the state guest house at Jade Abyss Pool Park in Peking, and between meetings with Premier Chou Enlai, treated to a lavish banquet in the Great Hall of the People. The People's Daily prominently displayed a group photograph of Kissinger, Chou and their top aides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Bringing Pressure on Hanoi | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

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