Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another class, this one in U.S. history, the teacher keeps up a patter of jokes and badinage. A discussion of economic competition sends him off on constant tangents. "I've got to borrow some pens," he says, leaping up and racing around the circle of desks in the room. His point, although garbled, is that pen manufacturers must be careful not to overprice or their products won't sell. When a student volunteers that his Bic pen cost 39¢, it strikes the teacher as a revelation. "Really? Have they gone up that much?" The kids loll back, tittering. "Would...
...certain "clean" candidates, but rather in the downfall of the city's three leading "anti-busing" (read racist) politicians. Boston is no more amenable to busing then it was three years ago, but after the street-and-beach warfare, the 25 per cent property tax hike and the constant scandals implicating almost every elected city official, Boston voters used the polls to register their disgust more than to signal any change of mood...
...stem from hormonal imbalances or overuse of stimulants, even coffee, but most experts are sure the affliction is a psychic one. Freudians consider it a neurotic symptom. Many psychologists see it simply as learned behavior: a patient has an initial breakdown so traumatic that it leaves him in a constant state of anxiety over a possible recurrence, thus producing the phobia...
...This constant correction of course happily supplies columnists with new material to write about-and keeps their commentary from becoming sinister. Prescription for reading Potomac journalism: when they're all warmly agreed about something, discount 20% for atmospheric distortion...
...UNIQUE FEATURES of Marat/Sade is the constant presence of lunatics, not directly involved in the reenactment of Marat's death. They remain on stage, becoming the illustration of all that Marat and Sade discuss--they are the Parisian poor, rightfully indignant against injustice in Marat's eyes, depraved in Sade's. The asylum guards are there, too, to underline the absurdity of the statement by the asylum director (Stephen Toope) that everything has changed, that Napoleon has brought demands for liberty, equality and brotherhood to fruition...