Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Niebuhr was often a step ahead of history. In 1932, he advised Negroes to organize Gandhian campaigns of nonviolent coercion rather than count on white benevolence. He first protested military involvement in Viet Nam when John F. Kennedy was President...
...appreciate the damage that this sort of sloppiness can do, it is useful to invoke the late Count Alfred Korzybski, inventor of general semantics. Korzybski was a Polish-born mathematician and physicist, part crank and part genius, who regarded his theory as a whole new science of life. Our language, argued Korzybski, does not reflect reality, and its structure does not correspond to the seen or unseen world. Its grammar, based on Aristotelian logic, implies primitive philosophical concepts tied to the prescientific past. All this leads to emotional disturbances and frustrations, known as semantic shock. Korzybski prescribed some mental tricks...
Many of those in the system agree. The Student American Medical Association, which speaks for 18,000 medical students, supports the Democratic bill, and many younger physicians have also given the measure their support. So has Dr. Count Gibson of Stanford University School of Medicine, who believes that the bill reflects a new philosophy of social service. "Medicine is moving from the entrepreneurial mode to the community institution," Gibson says. "You can compare it with education. In 1789, this was a private enterprise, but now nobody questions the responsibility of communities to provide public education. Now we're beginning...
...same time. Afterward, Liquori said that the race proved only that "I was the fastest on this particular day." Looking ahead to the day, he added: "I'm anxious to meet Jim again, but it's the last time-the 1972 Olympics-that will count...
...sleazy horror film called Count Yorga, Vampire contained even more than the usual quota of gore, including a sequence in which a pliant young woman has an orgasm while a vampire sucks blood from her neck. The board wanted to rate the film either R (anyone under 17 restricted unless accompanied by parent or guardian) or X (forbidden entirely to those under 17 or, in some places, 18). The studio agreed to cut some of the bloodier footage and finally won a GP rating. What remained under the GP label included a shortened version of the jugular orgasm...