Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Familiar Pressures. Phillips suspects that the quality of expectation is all-important. He suggests, for example, that a decrease in the death rate might not occur during the period of anticipation before Christmas-perhaps because of the familiar pressures that also accompany that season. Or it might not apply to ordinary people whose birthdays are not celebrated with the fuss that surrounds a man of fame. Still, the statistics that Phillips has gathered are convincing enough to impress the Russell Sage Foundation, which is oriented toward the social sciences; it has just given him an eleven-month grant for additional...
Blue Fire. Other stories examine what might happen when it is man's turn to explore other worlds, possibly to encounter life forms both inferior and superior to his own. One chilling short novel published in 1954, Lester del Rey's For I Am a Jealous People, told of a future in which mankind comes up against an ambitious race of conquerors with whom God has made a new Covenant-against earth men. Ray Bradbury's story of "The Fire Balloons" in The Illustrated Man tells of a gentler encounter, when two Episcopal missionaries on Mars discover...
Encounters with more primitive civilizations might produce unintended results not unlike those that Erich von Däniken says once occurred on earth...
...France, have insisted that the contemplative life is a special and noble vocation. The fathers of Vatican II declared in a 1965 decree that "communities that are entirely dedicated to contemplation are a glory of the church and a wellspring of heavenly graces." While some adaptation to modern life might be in order, they affirmed, the contemplative life itself "should be preserved with the utmost care." A new document governing the lives of cloistered nuns-67,380 throughout the world-has now made it clear that the Vatican intends to do just that...
...Germany, Europe's strongest economic upsurge has now reached a point at which eight job openings await each temporarily unemployed worker, even though a record 1.4 million foreign workers now labor on production lines. Prices are rising at a 3%-a-year rate. That might seem small to Americans but it is worrisome in a country where memories of the calamitous inflation of the '20s are as bitter as memories of the Depression in the U.S. The rate is likely to rise toward the end of the year, particularly if the general wage increase due in the fall...