Word: occuring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read, finding in every word a novelty?something which opened new horizons before my eyes. It was thanks to an article contributed by an American psychologist to the Reader's Digest that I succeeded in getting over my troubles. The gist of that article was that a shock may occur, at any stage in a man's life, which might make him feel that all avenues in front of him are blocked, that life itself is a prison cell with a perpetually locked door...
...current negotiations will be a test of Soviet policy. If the Soviet Union genuinely favors a relaxation of tensions throughout the world, it will in the Middle East allow the processes toward peace to occur and not press for formal participation in negotiations which are already under way and to which it can make no contribution. The Soviet Union has nothing to lose from a peaceful solution; indeed, a normalized Middle East should enable all countries to pursue their global policies on the basis of equality. If the Soviet Union encourages intransigence, the motive must be either hurt vanity...
...After that incident, O'Brien formed a committee to examine proposals for reducing the violence in pro basketball. Among the possible rule changes: penalties, similar to those in hockey, that remove a player for specified times; the use of a third referee to help sort out infractions that occur in the confined area under the basket, where elbows fly and tempers flare. The people who usually lurk beneath the hoop are heavyweights; most N.B.A. centers tower near the 7 ft. mark, and power forwards average more than...
...great elephant," Leonardo da Vinci wrote, "has by nature qualities which rarely occur among men: namely probity, prudence, and the sense of justice and of religious observance." Later zoologists in Africa have noticed more human traits in Loxodonta africana -long childhoods and close nuclear families, high intelligence and a habit of wrecking their environment and destroying their own food supply. The suicide ground of the retreating herds of African elephants has been, for the past quarter-century, the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, a place ringed by political (and thus, from the elephants' point of view, irrational) boundaries. This...
After the intermission, The Tempest begins to click. The turning point may well occur when the harpies emerge to terrify the ship-wrecked crew dressed in amoebic body stockings. The effect, for the first time, is very good, and the production takes off from there, building to a satisfying conclusion. In the final analysis, however, Shakespeare himself makes this show a success, for the script of The Tempest contains an abundance of good lines and absurd situations, all delivered in unique blank verse. The Adams/Quincy troupe rallies around the play and finishes triumphantly; despite some bogus effects, this Tempest...