Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also notes that sermons in backwoods churches still concentrate heavily on sins of the flesh-to the point that the message sometimes seems to be more "How to do it" than "Thou shalt not." An evangelist in North Carolina told Caldwell that before his "conversion" he had been a chronic womanizer; past wrongdoings were now an asset, he added, since in his sermons "I always start off talking about the sins I know about firsthand, because people want to know if their sins are about the same or different than mine." Caldwell also notes that many devout Southerners still cannot...
...Ivanov or Seagull as the Q.E.D. of human tragedy, lucidly observed. In English-language productions, all this has been sustained by country-house diction supported by the characterological self-control necessary to maintain strong emotion over long sentences. These productions were, and are often powerful but they have two chronic diseases--boredom spawned by excessive refinement of speech and movement, and sympathetic anesthesia brought on by conventions that often dwindle into mannered absurdities. An audience can have too much of droopy trees and existential pluck. And there is of course always the question of whether Dr. Chekhov has anything...
...used in transactions. Dollars are supplied to the international economy only when the U.S. has a balance-of-payments deficit, which means that U.S. deficits must provide the lubricant for international trade. Thus the inherent contradiction in the present system: U.S. deficits are essential to expanding trade, but a chronic deficit causes loss of confidence in the dollar, which must be restored by reducing the deficit--which serves to check expansion of international trade...
Some time after he left McLean, he said, he once more became unable to cope with Harvard and was sent at his request--"Because I knew I could leave it anytime I wanted"--to Boston State Hospital, an institution in which extremely disturbed and chronic patients are kept in custody. "I was put in a bedroom with 16 other men," he said, "screaming and urinating all over the place. I stayed in the hall and told the black attendant spook stories. . . ." He became more and more excited and finally was put in the "box," an empty room "with cement...
...reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman Sea. But any temptation to romanticize Chichester's feat will be quenched by a reading of this distillation from his 200,000-word...