Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heal and develop itself: Emerson said as much in "Self-Reliance" in 1841. But Weil's quiet indictment of a society ruled by rationalism and psychological materialism is unique, because it comes from a true child of this society. Moreover, he sees evidence that "we have passed the peak of our rational intellecutal period." The Natural Mind, valuable for its optimism alone, is an important examination of the potential of the mind for finding its own strength and security within...
...paradox is easily explained: in 1970 joblessness was rising sharply; many who were employed felt that they too would be thrown out of work. But now the rate has dipped from a peak of 6.2% in May of 1971, soothing the nerves of those still working-and they outnumber the jobless almost 17 to one. It may be that Americans are growing used to a jobless rate that they would have found intolerable only a few years ago. To Presidential Assistant John D. Ehrlichman, unemployment is really a training problem, because joblessness is "down to teen-age blacks, welfare mothers...
...much of its 136-year history, New York's prestigious Union Theological Seminary has been the largest interdenominational divinity school in North America. This fall, however, as Union opens its academic year, its enrollment is down 227 students from a peak of 665 four years ago, dropping the school to sixth in size. Moreover, Union is currently operating on a budget deficit ($390,000 last year) and, as President J. Brooke Mosley candidly admits, is undergoing an identity crisis. Says Mosley: "The school has not been clear about its priorities in the past several years...
...Professorships are generally regarded as the peak of academic prestige within the University community and many recipients of the honor are regarded as the very finest scholars in their respective disciplines...
...decade of the sixties perhaps marked the peak of their power in its most modern form when John Connally was in the governor's mansion, and Lyndon Johnson was in the White House. Johnson became more liberal, at least in his domestic policies, while Connally moved even farther to the right as a champion of business, but both men had exercised a lucrative control of state government that was made possible by their sharp minds and close attentiveness to presenting the "right image...