Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THINK, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of course he is of the Wheatstone Bridgedouble differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want...
...chair and provocatively settles her slender black-stockinged legs on a cluttered coffee table. She sits stiffly, ladylike. Her expressive hands, with their buffed, not polished nails, beat the air. "Older women of our generation have been described as depressed, sad, menopausal, decrepit, unproductive," she blurts. "God, I feel I'm running through a maze of negative perceptions like a tractor...
...fish, vegetables and pasta, Lear says, "People think older women who are thin don't work at it. They work harder at it." Each season she buys a new wardrobe of Chanel clothes and cruises about Manhattan on 65 pairs of black flats. "At every age a woman should feel she is dressed her best," advises Lear. "Often intelligent women feel embarrassed about concentrating on fashion. They shouldn't. It isn't trivial." Though a feminist, she readily exalts the sexual power of feminine beauty. Blissfully she recalls lounging about a country-club pool in her 20s. "I was wearing...
...people's medium. There's no ticket of admission. You only have to dial." Congressman Chester Atkins, a Massachusetts Democrat who was a chief target of pay-raise opponents, gamely praises the format as well. "Talk radio is in touch with the anger and hostility and frustrations that people feel with respect to government in their daily lives," he says...
...outweighs the good it can do," says talk-show veteran Larry King. A number of prominent talk hosts are staying away from the convention being organized by Jerry Williams, and the management of New York City's WABC-AM has forbidden its employees to attend. "We feel that unifying talk-show hosts on any political topic is undue and unfair concentration of media power," says program director John Mainelli...