Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A society facing the threat of nuclear war can look to the Black Death of 1348-1350 for valuable lessons in the social and psychological reactions to a disaster which rocked civilization, William L.Langer, Coolidge Professor of History told an audience of Physicians For Social Responsibility in Boston last night...
Langer, however, called the great bubonic plague epidemic, which in two years carried off one-third to one-fourth of Europe's population, "the greatest disaster that has ever overtaken mankind." He explained that this "disaster of the first magnitude must have had profound social effects."
These days reformers keep trying to turn womanpower : into manpower. But to Rosemary Park, there's nothing like a dame; a country that discards femininity is a disaster area. As she told her glittering inaugural audience, the real role for women is the fostering of "a nonspecialized but concerned...
When Gold tries to move from the fringes of society, however, to the mainstream of successful American life, his rush of eloquence falters. The Optimist, a novel which plumbed the past of a rising young politician, was a muddled nearfailure. Salt is a dreary near-disaster which recounts the triangular...
Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 said yesterday that he will take no steps to have part of East Cambridge declared a disaster area after a general-alarm five there Easter Sunday, because the blaze had caused "no heavy individual loss."