Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WILLIAM W. CRESSEY University of Illinois Urbana, Ill...
...trauma, the stock-market crash of 1929. Last week, in the midst of record prosperity, one of the nation's senior economic policymakers waved the red flag - and thereby showed how both ered and uncertain even the healthiest of bulls can become. With some well-timed but somewhat ill-chosen words, William McChesney Martin Jr., pres tigious chairman of the Federal Reserve System, brought out the mercurial char acter of Wall Street psychology, which finds it hard to accept the idea of indefi nitely continuing good times, even when business is most loudly proclaiming its confidence...
...film is flawed by a scenario that often strives to make raciness respectable. Defoe's Moll was a hardheaded tart who used her ill-gotten lovers for gain. Novak's Moll uses her ill-gotten gains for her lover, and too soon comes to too good an end as a conventional romantic heroine. Appropriately, in Moll's real-life postscript, Actress Novak and Leading Man Johnson became husband and wife, which makes their wide-screen hanky-panky seem unimpeachably legitimate...
...Some centuries ago a Scandinavian explorer, Thun by name, de- voted himself of anthropological studies of North American Indian tribes. To facilitate accurate documentation, he would live as a member of each tribe for a period of months. After one such sojourn, Thun was deathly, violently ill to his stomach and went on to the next in horrendous fits vomiting and diarreah...
...ill-luck would have it, he arrived at the Tiwanda village just the completion of their annual "festival of the bear." All year long Tiwanda braves would hunt bear and finally, on this particular day, the largest bear of the season would be killed, prepared and eaten by every members of the community. Each brave, squaw and papoose had his share of bear meat, of bear brain, of bear eye, of bear bone, and, for dessert, of bear's fur, cooked in a special glasse...