Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Hammond had not expected to find was that the death rates from heart attacks and strokes were higher for both men and women if they regularly slept more than seven hours a night. Seven seemed to be the ideal number of sleep hours; there were only slightly higher than average death rates for people who got less sleep. But among those who slept eight hours, women under 50 had a 53% above normal death rate from heart attacks, and both men and women under 50 had increases of more than 40% in the death rate from strokes. With nine...
Historic Trio. By and large, such questions troubled busy Americans only during pessimistic moments of crisis and political unrest. Near the turn of the century, however, the search for a usable past that would somehow square the original American ideal with exploitive American practices began to be the constant concern of a handful of historians. Their efforts and ideas form the background of this book by Columbia University's Richard Hofstadter. The Progressive Historians tells the story of three men-Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and Vernon L. Parrington-who did the most to shape America...
...Ousted in 1964 because of alleged "neutralist" tendencies, Minh was brought back by President Thieu as part of a national reconciliation effort (TIME, Sept. 27). That did not sit well with some South Vietnamese hawks, who worry about a U.S. sellout and who fear popular Big Minh as an ideal figure for eventual compromise with the Communists. Vietnamese Deputies and Senators began receiving un signed letters that branded Minh a tool of the Communists. Catholic extremists planned street demonstrations, and the Buddhists were quick to plan counterdemonstrations. There were other rumblings as well; some people were unhappy about the reappearance...
...Side Story the following year. "I wanted to bring the story to the attention of young people," says Director Franco Zeffirelli. "The story is of two urchins crushed by a stupid, banal quarrel with origins even the adults don't know. In love the young couple found an ideal - one they could die for - and youth today is hungry for ideals...
...teaching authority. But they also emphasize the pri macy of individual conscience and have said, in effect, that Catholic couples who feel duty-bound to practice contraception may do so and still remain in the church. Thus Paul's teaching is being presented more as an ideal to be striven for than as an absolute norm to be followed...