Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brogue, the trio conjure up a existence of bucketing around Scotland, Wales and Ireland in a van that doubles as home and transport. They fetch up in drafty halls before the blind, the crippled and the mad (unseen), some of whom never wanted to be cured but came to confirm their unyielding despair...
...that Brown is remarkably relaxed in an era of grade grubbing; that Brown has a beautiful campus; that Providence is not as blighted as it looks from Interstate 95; that nearly every Brown student who applies to grad school gets in. They are telling the truth, and Brown students confirm it on the college-high school grapevine...
...Such self-diagnosis among would-be mothers (or those who would prefer not to be) is still coveted today. Despite some frowns from the medical establishment, a growing number of women are using commercial kits, sold over the counter in pharmacies, which are designed to allay their fears-or confirm their wishes-about pregnancy. Says one proponent of the do-it-yourself trend: "It gives me the opportunity to find out whether I am pregnant in the privacy of my home, to get accustomed to the idea of being pregnant long before I need to go through a gross examination...
...that "the conference might have worked as a giant workshop." In fact, if he had checked with members of committees other than the one he was on, he would have found that these committees did in reality run in the manner he suggested. We, as delegated on other committees confirm this; his impression is ungrounded in fact...
...incongruous and even adverse situations that seem to support happiness may only confirm the insight ventured by turn-of-the-century Psychologist William James. "Life and its negation," wrote James, "are beaten up inextricably together. The two are equally essential facts of existence and all natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction." One broad contradiction that emerges from the happiness surveys is that, in spite of all the reports of the emptiness of modern life, relatively few people consider themselves very unhappy. On the contrary, an overwhelming majority of Americans (60% in one survey, 70% in another...