Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called "existentialists" would say that the present college generation suffers from acute selflessness. They renounce their own selves, their personalities. Not realizing that the self develops only in its becoming; i.e., when it is changing, they reject their own character and assume the safe characteristics of the average, the normal, the accepted and expected. But whether or not you can stomach the existentialist jargon, the fact persists that the colleges are turning out uninteresting, unoriginal, indistinguishable armies of these anonymous people...
...eviction, or, in the case of two unwed women, being abandoned by the men they had expected to marry. There were nine cases of shock or accident. With some overlaps, such factors were found in 66% of the retarded children's backgrounds, but in only 30% of the normal children's. Among the retarded children, 15% had physical deformities (fused fingers, clubfoot), ten times the rate among comparison groups...
What was mainly involved was the return of normal peacetime competition to the industry after 18 years of newsprint rationing. Until last December, when the government finally allowed newspapers to run as many pages as they wished, the biggest and strongest dailies could not give advertisers all the space they needed, thus, in effect, subsidizing smaller and weaker papers that had space to spare. With the end of newsprint restrictions. British admen, like their Madison Avenue cousins, began to concentrate their ads in dailies that give them either mass circulation, such as the Daily Express (circ...
While Winner Murray and fellow officials were adamant in their refusal to talk to any Journalists except Gene Farrell, able Editor Farrell was equally firm in declining the invitation. "A reporter normally gets interviews," he said. "These are normal times." In fact, the situation was so abnormal that the Journal was forced to run United Press stories on city government developments in Jersey City; new subscriptions had dropped off 70% since the election. The rival Hudson Dispatch (circ. 56.825), which had expressed less vigorous opposition to the Murray ticket, not only got the run of City Hall but was expected...
These 1,000,000 people will have died ten or 20 or 30 years earlier than their normal life span because the radiation has produced bone cancer, leukemia or some other disease. I estimate also that these bomb tests will cause the birth of 200,000 seriously defective children in the next generation...