Word: dyspepsia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unnaturally in-hospitable culture. Our leaders are hostile, our people consumptive, our arts enslaved. President Nixon's musical tastes range from a memorable arrangement of America the Beautiful for forty oil drums, to the Inaugural performance of All We Like Sheep by that otiose organ of musical dyspepsia, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Television emerges briefly from its ashcan to air a splendid production of Midsummer Night's Dream and then proceeds to ruin the gesture by taking out a full-page newspaper advertisement the next day celebrating its wondrous beneficence. The Trustees of our orchestras are unconquerably reactionary, hopelessly clinging...
...such movie stars as Shelley Winters, Susan Strasberg, Yves Montand and Simone Signoret. At week's end Khrushchev finally turned to his other guests and, in a relatively gracious gesture, tossed the Red Chinese a farewell dinner. Although described as "friendly," the meal could have produced little beyond dyspepsia, for Khrushchev had spoiled the table talk in advance, delivering an oratorical blast at Peking that in effect declared political war on the Chinese...
Faubus claimed that his ulcers-the main reason for quitting the race-had calmed down during the past month. But there was a more important reason for his readiness to return to the dyspepsia of politics. When his powerful organization failed to come up with a strong candidate for Governor. Faubus decided that he could not sit back and see a bitter political enemy take over the state...
...down side is just the thing to clean out the fainthearted in one fell swoop, stop the market from dribbling lower every day. Since such a clean-out is impossible in the economy as a whole, the pessimists will have to bear their mood of uneasiness patiently until the dyspepsia passes...
...mood was not based on the potential of the world's most powerful economy, or even on its present performance. It was an inevitable part of the psychology of the U.S. boom: too much good news, like too much rich food, can produce a vague, queasy dyspepsia...