Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real shock is the lack of shock," said Walter Hoadley, senior vice president and economist of the Bank of America. "People seem reconciled to it. Nowadays 71% only seems to confirm inflationitis." It also validates a growing concern that inflationary psychology may be every bit as disabling and difficult to cure as inflation itself...
...science of molecular biology and won them the Nobel Prize. For all the work that has been done in the field since Watson and Crick made their pioneering studies in 1953, no one had been able to display any hard and fast visual evidence to confirm the spiral structure of DNA. Now that evidence is in. A young California scientist reported to a Los Angeles meeting of the Biophysical Society last month that he had succeeded in photographing a DNA molecule...
...overground film. Grove Press, which imported Yellow from Sweden, issued a paperback copy of the script "with over 250 illustrations," many of the sort that usually come in plain brown wrappers. Now, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Yellow may be shown uncut, and moviegoers can confirm all the rumors for themselves. They are true. The chances are, however, that viewers who expect a titillating kind of 1,001 Scandinavian Nights will be disappointed. For all its well-publicized explicitness, Yellow is not much more erotic than the Fannie Farmer cookbook...
...guerrillas also stepped up their war, as weather improved. The fedayeen planted a package of explosives outside the British consulate in Jerusalem, presumably in response to reports that Britain intends to sell tanks to Israel, reports that London declines to confirm or deny. Another bomb went off in the marketplace of Lydda, wounding an Arab grocer. In Jordan, fedayeen leaders took to moving from camp to camp, fearing assassination by Israeli infiltrators. King Hussein temporarily closed down Amman airport, and Egypt's Nasser declared a state of emergency...
Mosaic Observations. The reissue two years ago of Death on the Installment Plan helped confirm Céline's status as an important college-cult figure. Castle to Castle may mark wider recognition in the U.S. for Céline as one of the considerable writers of this century. Yet Céline's belief that he was in the esthetic avant-garde is overblown, and so are the claims that this book is a germinal literary event. Celine said that he wrote the way people talk and evidently regarded this as a startling innovation...