Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disillusioning, but the men's rest-room in the stacks of Harvard's Widener Library, which is nearly perfectly limited to Harvard students and officers, contains graffiti as exclusively gross as could be found in bathrooms anywhere...
Hanging over the trial is the remarkable report released on Tuesday by the Cohen committee, a report which documents the gross mismanagement of the Massachusetts welfare system, and places the blame squarely on Gov. Volpe and his administration...
...best-known product. Today, virtually every small village and town has some sort of modern industry, and the state's output adds up to an impressive 17% of West Germany's total. Manufacturing accounts for 54% of Baden-Württemberg's $18 billion gross product, a higher percentage than in any of the other nine German states. Some 10,600 industrial firms produce more and export more per capita than those in any other area of the country. And, according to statistics recently released by Deutsches Industrieinstitut, the state capital, Stuttgart (pop. 614,000), has edged...
...Circle (TIME cover, Sept. 27), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward has been published in an English translation. As a special kind of literary import, it stands partially obscured by the excess political baggage that has accompanied it. The kinds of labels inevitably suggested by the advance publicity are gross and distracting: savage expose of Stalinism; revealing political microcosm; old cold-war propaganda. The reader is thus challenged to slip past the luggage and the labels into the heart of the book...
...monster of Expensive People is a gross 18-year-old named Richard Everett with an IQ of 161 and a neurosis to match every one of his 250 pounds. In a memoir that sometimes reads like Compulsion as told by Holden Caulfield, Richard wanders through his traumatic childhood, concentrating upon his twelfth year when he blossomed out as a child murderer...