Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around." But when this self-confident posturer comes in contact with love he has to ask, "Where is my common sense/How did I get in a jam like this?" Byrne sings the '70s stereotype in his songs. His lyrics are animated by the Time magazine "Mood of the Nation" assessment of this decade: selfish, troubled, absorbed in personal concerns and hedonism, and empty. Byrne jabs at this view even as he accepts it in himself...
...Nations may recover from dollar slides; and earthquakes may not destroy the U.S. We may forget that Super Bowls are played on the Sabbath, but as surely as God is holy, judgment falls on a nation whose sexual promiscuity and sex perversion is a way of life. As America arrives on the scrap heap of nations, Sodom and Gomorrah will ask: What took you so long...
...been nearly two years since I last used this space to report on the nation's continuing postal problem. Since then, some progress has been made on legislation to deal with that problem, though it has not shown up in your mail service. Now even the legislative progress has been halted by White House intervention. Last June a bill was introduced into the House of Representatives designed to make the postal system once again viable and effective. Its authors are James M. Hanley of New York and Charles H. Wilson of California, who over the years have taken...
...distance freestyle events, no one is near the Yonkers flash. His 1000-yd, freestyle NCAA record time of 9:02.05 is 12 seconds better than anyone in the nation, 33 seconds better than anyone in the East (Harvard's Michael Coglin is second at 9:35.57), and 41 ticks better than Princeton's best man. Hackett's 4:27.75 mark for the 500 free is second in the nation and miles ahead of anyone in the East...
Deal with it, folks. California has become the emotional and psychological, if not the intellectual mecca of America. New home remedies for family and personal problems appear weekly on the nation's bestseller lists, and everyone who's anyone in the public eye has a psychoanalyst in the closet. Behind every great man, it seems, is a great shrink...