Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curious that Henry Kissinger, the futurist who demands that the U.S. look far ahead before deciding what to do tomorrow morning, should be so much at home in the 19th century. However, states and statesmen were more predictable during that period, and the margin for error was a little greater. He is not alone in arguing that the U.S. could benefit from reading?and understanding?history. "The pre-eminent task of American foreign policy," he has said, "ought to be to get some reputation for steadiness. Whether we are dangerous to our enemies one can argue, but we are murder...
...biopsychology from the University of Chicago. "About all I knew," he says, "was that I want ed to put out a magazine, a sort of Scientific American of the social sciences. There is psychology behind all acts-eating, going to bed, and so on. People are curious about these things...
...very good year for long-haired swingers and toupeed singers. The way the public pop-psyched it out, at 19, she was looking for a father; at 48, he was looking for his youth. Their life became about as secluded as an airport. The couple took the most curious romantic cruise since the owl and the pussycat, with much the same result: a mismatched marriage...
...handful considered prospective employers hostile toward ex-priests; others found them skeptical. But one-third regarded the business community as aware of former priests' potential as jobholders; another third called businessmen merely curious. Half got their jobs by personally contacting businessmen; only one in five used employment agencies or private placement bureaus. The Gallagher Report calls former priests an "untapped manpower resource" with "stability and brain power." Seven out of ten, it adds, are happy with their new careers...
...late Trappist monk, in his last book of poems, offers his apprehensions of the Kentucky woods and views of his mystical insights. Basically, however, he is a modern antipoet. Sense and nonsense are mixed, but out of the confusion comes a curious lucidity. In his parody of a newscast, he finds that...