Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hill committee and its administrator, Rhody McCoy, because it refused to return the unwanted teachers to their regular duties. The move seemed to ease the crisis. The teachers were grudgingly accepted in seven of Ocean Hill's eight schools, and attendance throughout the citywide system returned almost to normal...
...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 hours' sleep, both sexes had generally but not consistently higher death rates. With ten hours' sleep, the death rate for women over...
...color-coding system that the Mexicans have devised to guide tourists to the games. All that a person going to the basketball games in the Sports Palace has to do is hail a cab bearing the basketball symbol or follow the green lampposts. To Mexico City's normal generous supply of 20,000 taxis, 3,400 special volunteer cars have been added, all color-coded to designate their destination...
...Marxist humanist. For this reason, he found in Chinese poverty a refreshing contrast to what he considers the economic excesses of the West. In a sentence reminiscent of Man as an End, his collection of essays published between 1941 and 1963, he writes: "Poverty and chastity are the two normal conditions of man, or at least they ought to be in the world today." In China's destitution and Mao's efforts to eradicate the past, Moravia finds the possibility of rejuvenation. For, once the past has been destroyed, says he, echoing Mao, it "will be replaced...
...maids, for example, spend half their time every day cleaning the large, multi-unit bathrooms. If normal size bathrooms were shared by two or three girls, the users could care for it, just like in the real world. This arrangement would actually involve less work, since girls would naturally tend to be tidier if they had to clean up after themselves. In any case, it's not going to ruin anyone's academic standing to clean up a bathroom occasionally...