Word: connect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ROBERT JAY LIFTON, U.S. psychohistorian (Yale): Mao was able to articulate, live out and connect with the aspirations of the Chinese people at a time of crisis. Like most great religious and political leaders, he had some relation to a holocaust (the disintegration of Chinese culture, the warlords, Japanese invasion...
Sunspot Cycle. The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun. Changes in the earth's tilt and distance from the sun could, for instance, significantly increase or decrease the amount of solar radiation falling on either hemisphere-thereby altering the earth's climate. Some observers have tried to connect the eleven-year sunspot cycle with climate patterns, but have so far been unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of how the cycle might be involved...
...Robert Pirsig delivering his own "talks" from the seat of an old high-miler. I do not know enough about science or philosophy to assess Pirsig's originality from that perspective, but he did not write the book to be weighed in as a philosopher. The autobiographical threads that connect his chautauquas possess the urgency of self-revelation. An attempt to exorcize and thrash the "ghost of rationality" haunts Pirsig's story, and his personal quest animates the intellectual odyssey. The book's roots in common experience enable one to follow and savor its course...
...than in other urban communities. A substantial occupational danger exists where University-employed workers sand down old vinyl and asbestos floor tiles to make a flat surface on which to lay new ones. Pipe insulation installers become covered with crumbling asbestos sealants while working in the steam tunnels that connect Harvard buildings. The incessant swirl of stop-and-go traffic around Cambridge exposes us all to fibers ground off brake shoe linings. Demolition and construction activities on the Nathan M. Pusey Library and Canaday Hall constitute another major source of asbestos pollution...
Other behavioral scientists connect Nixon's swearing with his admiration for tough guys like General Patton and the characters John Wayne plays and with his love for sports. Notes Harvard Sociologist David Riesman: "He always wanted to be in the locker room, but never belonged there; he's like the coxswain on the crew." Many psychologists observe a deep-seated insecurity in Nixon and feel that he swears simply to be one of the boys...