Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...condone waste of still-usable automobiles and refrigerators because Americans can afford the "better" things, and you state that the only real waste is the waste of human resources. Did it not occur to the writer that the majority of Americans spend their lives in jobs they don't like mainly to earn more money to buy-and to waste-such items? Are these people not wasting their lives in the "real" sense of the word...
Most authorities today hold that suicide does not occur suddenly but is the outcome of a mixture of causes and a long, progressive "failure of adaptation." But lately, according to Dr. Stanley Yolles, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, many psychiatrists are considering the possibility of a hitherto-unnamed neurosis that predisposes its victims to suicidal tendencies: they "are just as disinclined to be ill as, for instance, tuberculosis patients; they are not free in making their decisions...
Though meteorologists now know enough about tornadoes to predict with reasonable accuracy when they are likely to occur, they are powerless to prevent the deadly funnels from forming and cutting their swaths of destruction. Help may be on its way. A NASA scientist has conducted laboratory tests suggesting that tornadoes are electrically driven phenomena that can be dissipated simply by shorting them...
...caps its evocation of Stevens a few lines later by mentioning "A jar in wilderness upon a hill." Unfortunately Mr. Kaitz, whatever his intent, has failed to echo Steven's typically smooth movement, so different from the ragged rhythms above. Nor could these strings of monosyllables occur in his pentameter: "His cause was meager and his flag was thin...
...Gibbsville and his Mrs. Kenneth R. Schumacher of Swedish Haven, Pa., are every bit as convincing as his faded movie stars and pop singers going to fat. Their predicaments, in fact, are often more convincing since O'Hara well knows how it is that bizarre events can occur in the most banal surroundings...