Word: adjustments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both have good hearing, sound teeth, good color sense and good vision for men of their age, though Eisenhower is a bit farsighted and Stevenson wears reading glasses because his eyes are slow to adjust for close range. Both have normal lungs, but Stevenson suffers occasionally from bronchitis. The governor's heart beats faster-80 to the minute at rest, 110 after brisk exercise; the general's averages 72, goes up to 96 on exercise. The general has the higher blood pressure, averaging 134/90 (it has been as high as 156/96); the governor's is healthily...
Such scenes were taking place last week at 17 different U.S. campuses. Claremont was merely typical of a special nationwide orientation program that the State Department has set up. Dismayed by how long it takes for foreign exchange students to adjust to U.S. ways, State began experimenting last year, picked out a series of centers where students could go for indoctrination before moving on to their regular work at the colleges and universities of their choice. This year, with the program put on a permanent basis, 800 students from 52 different countries are now taking part...
...next ten years, said he last week, air-conditioning sales should more than double; the number of houses having single-room air conditioners should increase tenfold to about 5,000,000. Said Wampler: Man will forget "the day when he used to wrestle windows up & down, fight with screens, adjust radiators and try to pacify furnaces. He will simply set a thermostat and forget it ... The non-air-conditioned house is today's horse & buggy...
Hapless members of this overflow must descend to the bottom of Fogg, seat themselves in the cramped and uncomfortable chairs, and adjust their eyes to the miniscule candlepower developed by the room's scanty and misdirected illumination. This last adjustment is the most difficult, and the delay caused by all the squinting and straining required is a harsh and unnecessary burden, especially for those in courses like Humanities I where each question on a three-hour exams needs three hours to write an adequate answer...
...strenuous and difficult times" in the past, he writes, the emphasis was upon the necessity for the individual to adjust to his environment and meet his difficulties. Many laggards were brought to a higher level of accomplishment by "mass suggestion," while the few who did not rise in this way were despised or even executed. This, of course, was unfair. But since Freud, so much emphasis is put upon the hazards surrounding the individual that he may lose the stimulus to make a fight. He is encouraged in this by the widely held idea that "the conditions of life today...