Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decline of mental powers with age, the psychologists conclude, is more likely to result from the brain's getting too little rather than too much work. The brain simply does not get exhausted from overwork, though the individual may get worn out from emotional strain associated with his effort...
...overperformance as much as Pampeana suffers from cliches. Griffes (1884-1920), after studying piano and composition in Berlin, taught elementary music in a boy's school near New York; he could compose only during his leisure, though the rapid evolution of his oevre suggests a substantial talent, death from overwork at the age of 36 prevented him from developing a style really his own. Thus the Poem blends impressionistic vagaries, romantic rhapsodies, and mitigated marches into a staple of flautists everywhere...
...million refugees who have poured into Hong Kong from Red China since 1949, most have been farmers and fishermen fleeing overwork and hunger. In Hong Kong last week, TIME Correspondent Loren Fessler interviewed a rarity among the refugees: Chan Po-cheung, 30, a self-confident young man who served the Communists for years as a party stalwart and a high-ranking officer in the feared Public Security Bureau. Chan's story offers a striking insight into the life of both oppressors and oppressed in Red China. It also shows that in the past year Communist police efficiency has declined...
...logic. They say that anyone who has waded through the arguments pro and con would find this protest incredible. They conclude that "there are only two possible explanations" for the manifesto. One is described as the blind, deaf liberalism of the thirties. The other is ignorance born of overwork...
...college-educated to lend their talents to deploring present solutions. "Was John Milton to conjugate Greek verbs in his library when the liberty of Englishmen was in peril?'' Prince Bismarck found, the President recalled, that 'one-third of the students of German universities broke down from overwork. Another third broke down from dissipation, and the other third ruled Germany.' " Kennedy left it for each student to choose his third...