Word: invalidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reedy voice, spun off the Oklahoma plains like a cloud of the "dusty old dust" in his ballads to roam the nation singing in transient camps and saloons. His best stanzas staked the folk boom of the '60s, but by then their author was a wasted invalid, "drifting along" his last road in a hospital...
...nothing can ever be quite the same again. If Ted Serios can mentally cause or influence the production of images on Polaroid Land film, then the traditional divisions of mind and matter, the life of the mind and the life of the physical world, are to some extent plainly invalid. If Eisenbod and Serios can demonstrate the truth of mind-over-matter (psychokinesis or PK), it matters little that the mind involved is that of a nearilliterate social outcast, or that the matter is only the molecules of a photographic emulsion. The principle, once established, generates ramifications which simply have...
Councillor Walter J. Sullivan was unimpressed with the argument. He said he had seen the first 100 of the 985 pages of signatures and that "better than 50 per cent" were invalid. The Vote on Vietnam spectators greeted his statement with hisses...
...virility symbol, and we can make the house into something equally pleasing." So says Industrial Designer William Theodore Snaith, 59, who gets paid for thinking up such things-in this case, $200,000 by 28 manufacturers whose fortunes depend heavily on housing. Snaith decided that one thing ailing the invalid housing industry is that today's houses are built to appeal to women (with emphasis on bathrooms and bedrooms) instead of men (who like foyers and dining rooms). He regards kitchens as neutral territory, half favored by men, half resented by women (because they spend so much time cooking...
...walks fast, talks fast and thinks fast, the sturdy (5 ft. 10 in., 180 lbs.) Geneen churns with the ambition of a man half his age. In the space of eight years, he has rejuggled ITT from top to bottom, transforming it from a stodgy, disjointed telecommunications invalid into one of the most successful of the highly diversified new-breed corporations known as "conglomerates...