Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sternest Test. Much more intelligent-and effective-methods could be used. Menninger's Klemme believes that many early flameouts could be prevented by competent psychological counseling, which few companies offer. Older executives could be reinvigorated by sabbaticals or company-paid refresher courses in subjects that now frighten them (example: computer technology). They could be switched from jobs in which they are getting stale to different but important assignments. A shift need not be downgrading; on the average, a man in middle management today stays in his job only 18 months before moving...
...that no scientists were in danger last week of losing their heads, as had the ancient Chinese court astronomers Hsi and Ho for failing to predict the imminence of a solar eclipse. No one in the U.S. shot arrows into the sky, as Peruvian Indians often did to frighten away the beast devouring the sun. No one even thought, as had the Tahitians, that the sudden darkness meant that the sun and the moon were engaged in celestial copulation. Nor in a smog-ridden society did the midday blackness even seem all that strange...