Word: blisse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ontario Crippled Children's Centre in Toronto, where Kari is a pupil, is successfully using a system of symbols as a substitute for spoken language. They are patterned after "Blis-symbols," devised some 30 years ago by an Austrian-born chemical engineer named Charles Bliss in the hope that they would be used to promote international understanding. Hardly anyone paid any attention, though, until last year, when Shirley McNaughton, a teacher at the center, came upon an account of them in a library and decided that they might be modified for use by the handicapped...
...common during the Thirty Years War in the 17th century, when troops ravaged the countryside indiscriminately. New or old, wanton slaughter recalls the question posed by Nietzsche's red judge: "Why did this criminal murder?" Nietzsche's reply: "His soul wanted blood; he thirsted after the bliss of the knife...
...intrigued by your observation that the Chinese appear to be a happy people. Enslavement and total thought control tend to breed ignorant bliss. The Chinese are "happy" only because they know no other lifestyle. All memory of pre-Communist times has been eliminated by Mao's indoctrination...
...beginning of a new era. Generally it is supposed to be a time of timidity and meanness. It may turn out to be good for international relations, but it is not recommended for marriage. Astrologers in Hong Kong say that the rat is a bad omen for connubial bliss, so unusually large numbers of Chinese couples there have recently been marrying in order to beat the deadline next month...
...tried to march with the band in an Independence Day parade last year carrying signs saying "NixOn War" and "Military Wives for Peace," the Army had had it. Some band privileges were revoked, and when dissension within the ranks followed, the Army transferred Cortright to band duty at Fort Bliss, Texas. The soldier claimed in U.S. district court that his free-speech rights had been violated. Though the lower court agreed, Chief Judge Henry Friendly for the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling. Friendly found that the Army had not gone too far in holding that Cortright...