Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foundation for a common type of kidney stone. (Popeye in real life would have suffered endless agonies from passing stones.) Carotene, the pigment that puts the color in egg yolks, sweet potatoes, mangoes and carrots, is used by the body to make Vitamin A-but consumed in excess causes a kind of jaundice...
Businessmen are still borrowing expansively and betting on continued inflation. They figure that demand will remain high, and so they had better build plants and buy equipment now instead of waiting until prices go up still further. Despite dwindling profits, scarce credit and excess capacity, the Government's latest survey shows that businessmen plan an 11% increase to $71 billion in their investment for plant and equipment next year. Capital spending has been an important force behind inflation in recent months, and such an increase would add greatly to price pressures...
...more firmly established organization, Ecology Action, is planning a different sort of activity: a Christmas Crafts Workshop. Allen Berube, a co-ordinator of the organization, said that the workshop will tie in with a boycott against traditional Christmas shopping. Christmas these days involves a lot of unnecessary advertising, excess packaging, and garbage. It is a time of sales and profits more than anything else. The Craft Workshop, which will last from Dec. 7 to 23, is intended to provide an alternative way of giving at Christmas. People will come in and make gifts with the help of the workshop staff...
Voltaire failed from a kind of perfection. Everything came easily to him except a certain divinely vulgar excess. He was, as one critic complained, a "chaos of clear ideas." He accused Shakespeare of being "barbarous," "unbridled," "low" and "absurd." Exactly. And that coarse strength is what we miss at last in Voltaire. By his masterly demonstration of the farthest reach of reason, he finally showed how much lies beyond...
...world can't abide phantasy, fools, excess and dreams. The Bible and church history is loaded with all of these categories. Christ was a dreamer. The martyrs were excessive as they leaped at the lions and the flames. St. Francis and his little band of bearded, be-sandaled, begging Italians were fools par excellence. Phantasy? Look to the Apocalypse and the books of Daniel, and Ezechiel. Contemplation is a dream self-induced by asceticism or Godgiven ecstasy, but not too practical...