Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...younger daughter opted automatically for pomp above privacy. No one has ever been married before in the great hilltop edifice in northeast Washington, with its mosaic domes, 30 satellite chapels and ornate, still-incomplete interior that has had to be cleared of scaffolding for the occasion. Actually, it is normal Catholic practice for a girl to be married in her own parish church; Luci's happens to be St. Matthew's Cathedral, which is only six blocks from the White House and would thus have limited the wedding party's public exposure. (One rationale for not using...
...peak levels, it is difficult to tell if the horns are playing 1812 Overture or "Look out!" Though Safety Crusader Ralph Nader labels the tapes as "Just another step toward insulating the driver completely from the outside," the National Safety Council believes that stereo played at a normal volume is a tonic since "it helps keep the driver alert...
...strength a man peaks at 21 and plateaus to the late 60s, the period when degenerative diseases stalk. The arduous training program of the astronauts, five of whom are over 40 (Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, Donald Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom), has proved that a man can double his normal physical competence at ages much beyond 21. Any middle-ager's physiological potential is probably as unique as his fingerprints. The hair may grow thinner, but the capacity for mental growth is unimpaired in middle age. It is obvious that a man or woman of 40 can understand Moby...
gaining its interest from a doubling of the natural number of stresses those words demand. Earlier, in Opus 6's "Desolation Row," a typical fine lyric operated within the confines of natural speech rhythm and normal stress...
...only pleasant line among the lyrics, YOu, yOu took me In, yOu loved me thEn, you nEver wAsted time, comes when the monotonous full rimes are minimized. What pleasure it thereby brings, unfortunately, is less that of normal theme-and-variation than that good feeling you get when you stop drumming your head with a hammer...