Word: constantly
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Oedipus, schmoedipus. Scientists have found "a significant correlation between the presence of the short gene and... neurosis" [BEHAVIOR, Dec. 9]. Are they talking about a life of dread-filled consternation, apprehension, psychic tension, imagined sin, constant self-recrimination and a fear-based view of life? All this is the result of the short gene's inability to promote an adequate amount of "the molecules that facilitate serotonin reabsorption"? After years of psychotherapy, ingesting the serotonin-producing drug Prozac and beating up on myself for being so "weak," I now learn that science is suggesting I am perhaps no more responsible...
...strange nation. We Americans live in a state of constant optimism that somehow we are going to change human nature. We think we can put men and women together in a high-stress, testosterone-charged, macho environment and expect them to stay away from one another. That's nonsense. We're not going to change human behavior. DON YARROLL Glen Ellyn, Illinois...
Stevens, who formerly served as a publicity officer, emphasized the importance of having a "constant connection to different types of press on campus...
...production's success begins, as one would expect, with Catherine Ingman's stage direction. A constant, careful and oftentimes outrageous choreography of cast members supplements the humor of the script. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert's wit is very much couched in wordplay and innuendo, and Ingman creates--in effeminate prancing, mock-stealthy stalking and slapstick combat--a physical counterpart to the clever turns of phrases. While such physical comedy can compromise itself with too much zeal or too little precision, this seldom happens. The actors seem to understand the appropriate bounds for their movements and the script is never upstaged...
...Ridicule" is indeed the recurrent theme of this world. Being ridiculed and being made ridiculous are the constant threats spurring the dangerous social interactions, and yet ridicule itself leads to dishonor and even death, by duel or suicide--endings with nothing witty about them, leading eventually to the questioning of all that this world and its ways exemplify...