Word: gees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March. She and her new husband make "limited use" of their credit cards. Jeanne, the California businesswoman, is still paying but looks on her situation as "one of those life crises we will have to overcome together." One of the hardest parts, she says, was "the attitude that, gee, if I'm working, I deserve $400 suits and expensive dinners. No more. Now we plan a night together watching television. Or we go jogging...
...gurus get wired up to bio-feedback machines, and as the rational West more and more confirms the metaphysics of the intuitive East, someone you trust is bound to confirm a great deal of Wilber's work. Sure, there are a lot of fakes who take advantage of the "Gee-Whiz" aspects of the field. But the west is going to have to accept the study of levels of consciousness as the primary area of psychology and social science, and it should start with the work of a serious theorist such as Wilber, Pioneers such as John Lily and Timothy...
DIED. Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, 89, children's book author of many of the gee-whiz adventures in series like Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift and the Bobbsey Twins; in Pottersville, N.J. Writing under such names as Carolyn Keene, Franklin W Dixon, Victor W. Appleton and Laura Lee Hope, Adams spun out more than 200 tales during a 52-year career. Adams was one of several writers who worked for the juvenile series' controlling corporation, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded by her father Edward more than 70 years...
Such breathlessly gee-whiz reportage will inevitably strike many people as decidedly off-key in a time of economic uncertainty and strife. A poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc. reported in December that among other disappointments, Americans by and large feel worse off today than they did a year ago. Nor will Kahn's profile win awards for methodology. Not one of the dozen or so "typical" Americans was quoted, say, while shuffling along an unemployment line. And some readers may quarrel with the Panglossian assessment of the California raisin farmer who beams...
...Carole would make a lot of jokes like, 'Gee, Frenesa, the whole floor shakes when you run!'" Hall recalls. "She probably thought it was best to make the whole situation seem amusing, but it was just like when your mother always nagged you to clean your room. Of course, you're just going to make it messier than ever...