Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your sex life to a bunch of strangers." Thus Clarke, who describes himself as "superrational," decided to try it. Last April-long before he knew he would write this week's Behavior story on TM-he invested $125 and four days in TM training. "I can't claim any miracles," says Clarke, "but I write with greater ease and speed now." Doing this week's assignment, even Clarke was surprised by the amount of energy TM seemed to unlock: "After meditating, I sat down and wrote for eight hours with only a short break...
...Pharaohs chased the Jews across the pages of the Old Testament? According to Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan, who in Ethnicity: Theory and Experience have collected sixteen essays by different authors on various aspects (both theoretical and empirical) of ethnicity, the world is becoming more ethnic. They claim an increasing number of people in different countries and in different situations are becoming conscious of their group distinctiveness and the "rights they derive from this group character...
...afro wig pushed every Black singer into Blackness and negro entertainers into negroness you couldn't jive when she said "you make me/feel" the blazers had to reply "gotta let a man be/a man" aretha said "when my show was in the lost and found/you came along to claim it" and joplin said "maybe...
...Austrians claim to have applied the new ideas of the neoclassical revolution even more rigorously to every area of economic thought, resulting in a very different approach from the other two schools...
...movies are confusing. Laughlin, who wrote the scripts for both films, portrays Billy as a passive fellow-within limits. Billy's enemies are big business, cops, state officials and rednecks. He supports "dissidents"-mainly students and Indians who, he makes clear, live off money from the Government they claim is hounding them. Billy likes to meditate but the movies' emotional climax comes when massed throngs scream as he starts to speak...