Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Magic Lantern. It was in a tiny room across the hall that the author spent his boyhood holidays. "Far from my mother and grandmother, my bedroom became the fixed point on which my melancholy and anxious thoughts were centered. Someone had had the happy idea of giving me, to distract me on evenings when I seemed abnormally wretched, a magic lantern ... it substituted for the opaqueness of my walls an impalpable iridescence, supernatural phenomena of many colours, in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory window." The lantern is still there. So is the scrubby garden behind...
...added that the quiet is doing more harm to Nixon. "Nixon couldn't have been elected without white fear of blacks. He rode the law-and-order issue into office. Now there are no niggers to distract ignorant white folk from seeing that the economy is falling apart and that...
...thirty-five years at the Garden, I have never seen a woman in the press box," said a silver-haired guard at the Boston Garden. "Our policy has always been that women weren't allowed to sit with the press because they might distract them, the guard said...
BEFORE he discovered Sesame Street last year, Associate Editor Stefan Kanfer, like many parents, had little faith in the educational value of television. "My first reaction whenever I saw my kids in front of the set," he recalls, "was to distract them somehow until I could shut it off. Then I noticed what they were watching, and pretty soon I found I was watching Sesame Street with them. When they peeled off to play from time to time, I was still there watching it. Now I even watch it when the kids aren't home...
Nixon, of course, must by law present an official budget estimating what revenues actually will be. But the President has begun to distract attention from the forthcoming deficit by stressing an idea known as the "full-employment budget." This is a theoretical measure that, instead of calculating actual Government income, figures how much the U.S. would have taken in if there were full employment. Thus, a deficit under ordinary accounting might well turn out to be a surplus in the full-employment budget. Example: in this fiscal year, the Government stands to spend about $210 billion and collect roughly...