Word: constant
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...must be. And they lead lives of exposure to abnormal and unremitting stimuli, against which their defense is a shell of aggressive, blase behavior. What catches their attention and wins their approval must be more aggressive, more shocking, more violent, but by no means necessarily more worthy, than this constant hyper-level of stimuli...
Under the Canopy. In the long view, the conference is likely to have less impact on what happens in Viet Nam than in the whole of Asia. Johnson's constant refrain was Asia's growing sense of regional pride. "It's like what Baltimore got from winning the World Series," he said at one point. While that must have baffled any Asian leaders who heard it, they were clearly gratified by his pledge that the U.S. was committed to help the area not as a dominant power but as a partner within a new comity of nations...
...this left confusion as the only constant, even among the professional seers. An NBC poll by Oliver Quayle showed a pronounced trend for Rockefeller, while a New York Daily News canvass found O'Connor improving on a slight 3.6% lead. An ABC poll by John Kraft reported a near deadlock with O'Connor 2% ahead and the undecided still at 13%. All three indicated the minor-party candidates could get about 20% of the vote between them. Thus, it was not even certain that the winner would have a majority mandate...
...buzzed through the clear morning air above Kenya's Tsavo National Park. In the rolling bushland below grazed herds of zebra, kudu, oryx and hartebeest, swishing away flies with their tails. Suddenly, from the middle of a patch of thorn trees, flashed the white flick of an egret, constant companion of the African elephant. It was what the pilot had been looking for. He radioed the position to the ground, and within minutes a helicopter arrived. Two white hunters climbed out and disappeared into the tangle of thorn trees. There was a burst of high-powered rifle shots...
...need constant changes in curriculum to reflect new knowledge," Keppel said. Instead, he said, education as an institution has remained "remarkably unchanged in the last 50 years." Universities will play an essential role in this area, the former dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education predicted...