Word: different
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nuclear annihilation, has been widely touted as "the age of stress." Last weekend a dozen of the world's top authorities on all kinds of stress got together in a symposium at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. Their conclusion: today's stresses differ from yesterday's more in kind than in degree. More important, they said, stress is good for you. In fact, it would be hard to live without...
...such things as Keats's ambivalent feeling toward women-induced, Miss Ward feels, by his shock when his mother married again barely two months after the death of his father. On many insignificant details-such as whether Keats had syphilis when he wrote Endymion-the two biographers differ sharply (Ward: yes, Bate: no). But they emphatically agree that Fanny Brawne, the girl Keats wanted to marry, was not the heartless flirt that Keats's friends and generations of Keats's sympathizers make her out to be. She loved Keats and was patient with his on-again...
Above all, Rumpf's conclusions ignore the testimony of German war leaders themselves on the value of Allied bombing. For the most part their opinions differ considerably from the findings of Rumpf. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the German Finance Minister during the 1930's, told investigators after the war: "Germany lost the war the day it started. Your bombers destroyed German production, and Allied production made the defeat of Germany certain." General of the Infantry Georg Thomas, military chief of the German Office of Production related: "Bombing alone could not have defeated Germany, but without bombing the war would have lasted...
Arguments based on taste are double-edged. Certainly Harvard would oppose restrictions on a Communist like Gus Hall, even though his views might be no less repugnant than Wallace's. For that matter, how does Mme. Nhu differ from the Governor? In short, a decision against dissemination of ideas has implications beyond the personal merits of the speaker who expresses them...
...theory goes-all ethnic groups lose their distinguishing characteristics and blend into a homogeneous whole. It is the argument of this provocative book that the melting pot has done very little melting. However much these groups may have changed over the years, they have retained their identity. They differ as much as they ever did-and the authors think that it is good that they...