Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bigamy: "To carry out my mission would I have to become . . . lord and master of a harem?" But Ilouhi finds him Crey the Bahnar huntress, a wild creature from the inner jungle. With the appearance of Crey, Riesen is surprised to discover in the de voted Ilouhi "that boundless distress which is as old as the world itself." A new relationship develops in which Rene finds that Ilouhi can "have the same sort of dreams as a white woman," but in the ef fort to share her thoughts and influence her mind he finds that she is "slowly lead...
...Nick. In Franklin, Ky., police got a telephone distress call to hurry "out to my house because something awful is about to happen," sped to the address, found, crouched behind the sofa, Billy Kratzert, 4, who pointed a trembling finger at his baby sitter, said: "She was going to spank...
Augsburg (July 30-Aug. 11) has gone Italian. When the city fathers decided four years ago to get in on the festival boom and started looking around for an uncommitted composer, they found to ;heir distress that the supply of Germans iad been exhausted: Ansbach and Leipzig lad Bach; Bonn had Beethoven; Bayreuth had Wagner; Munich had Richard Strauss. Partly because they wanted a :omposer who had written enough to feed the festival for years, the Augsburgers aicked Verdi, and reminded visitors that :he city was once Germany's gateway to Italian commerce. This year Augsburg is offering Verdi...
...interesting because it refutes a sizable number of attitude studies which claim to find a clear trend toward liberalism with increasing exposure to academic influence. Jacob points out, however, that most of the studies which report this trend were conducted in the 1930's when exceptional social and economic distress brought about a general liberal reorientation. He notes that more recent surveys comparing college graduates with others find the difference in outlook negligible on many questions, and that on economic issues the college man is likely to be more conservative than the others...
Like harelip and cleft palate (TIME, Sept. 17), mental retardation may show up oftener in certain families without being directly hereditary by any Mendelian pattern. Dr. Stott's theory: the tendency may be hereditary, and disease or distress during pregnancy may touch...