Word: careful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only one to lead a life of deception. Perhaps Wolff can forgive his father more easily than most because he is uncomfortably cognizant of his guilty role in the game. At the time he vaguely perceived the travesty but chose to ignore it: "Maybe I didn't care. I was safe...
...that Geoffrey would shy away from the awful truths about his father, but it's peculiar that at no time did a suspicious employer challenge Duke Wolff with a copy of the Yale Alumni Directory. No one bothered to question his patently phony credentials, because Wolff's devil-may-care lifestyle harmonized with American post-war values, which rated bravado far above competency. Both the child, Geoffrey Wolff, and the nation idolized men who--like Duke--"despised prudence, savings accounts, looks before leaps...
They called for reduction of their work week, a built-in cost-of-living clause and coverage for a complete health care plan...
Thomas misjudges again in "The Health-Care System" where he discusses the "transformation of our environment" into "an immense imdustry...in aid of health." We have become obsessed with health, he contends, and there is something unhealthy about this. "We do not seem to be seeking exuberance in living as much as...putting off dying." While our society may have become a giant whirlpool treatment concerned with collective physiotherapy," Thomas's analysis of our motivation is missing something. He correctly states that we jog and diet because we fear dying, but we may also think we're helping ourselves...
Question 1 on the November 6, ballot asks voters "Should the Cambridge City Council support a national health service program which provides comprehensive care, including preventive, curative and occupational health services...