Word: cyclicism
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...reasons that seem to be rooted in the public mood, muckraking is a cyclic form of journalism. If a society is troubled, it suspects that something is wrong with its system or its leaders; a free press responds by finding out what that something is. Hence the recent exposes of the Mafia, Senator Dodd, slaughterhouses, Abe Fortas, American automobiles, poverty funds misuse, hot dogs, drug companies, Pentagon spending, Senator Long, Medicare profiteering, Congressman Gallagher. And last week, the charge in Look magazine that Joseph L. Alioto, the dynamic and popular mayor of San Francisco, is involved with the Mafia...
...Says Captain Bourne: "We practically said, 'Let us have your urine while you're being shot at.' " As it happened, all Viet Cong attacks were aborted before they could reach the camp. But that made no difference to the Bourne study. The men were under relentless cyclic stress, which reached a peak every evening with the prospect of a night attack. One day when intelligence said that an attack was expected, 30% of the G.I.s developed "the G.I.s"-diarrhea. But all, like the medics, showed normal or subnormal levels of stress hormones...
...what caused the periodic cold? There is no evidence that the sun has any cyclic activity that might have brought it on, nor can it be blamed on any other astronomical effect...
...often comment on lovers ill-suited by age; it enriches our understanding of the tensions of the fourth book, written when Horace had lived past the age of decorous love (by his earlier standard) but still had the same desires; furthermore, it reveals that the recurrent seasonal metaphors are cyclic reminders of the need to conform decorously to life's changing demands. Hence, carpe diem is not a simple invitation to license, but a complex call for infinite attention to each day's new proprieties...
...undergraduates of big-time U.S. folksinging, the Limeliters are the faculty, and the chairman of the department is 37-year-old Lou Gottlieb, who in 1958 took his doctorate in musicology at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, presenting a thesis consisting of previously unpublished 15th century cyclic masses. On and offstage, Gottlieb continually seems to be wondering if he really exists, drops great polysyllables and 18-carat clichés like in extenso and in medias res, which are woofed into Ciceronian syntax with words like "risible," "emolument," and "mentation." Then he turns around, describing the group...