Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exquisite Timing. In the aftermath, it was evident that the police, though certainly provoked, had once again cracked plenty of heads with unnecessary roughness. The university administration had displayed its customary exquisite sense of poor timing in suspending Rudd and the S.D.S. leaders during a period of relative calm and then heightening tension by ordering a full-scale clearing of the entire campus...
Convalescence, once a slow and leisurely period, keeps getting shorter. For highly practical reasons, surgeons continue to cut down the time their patients spend recuperating in the hospital. For one thing, the faster a patient goes home, the less likely he is to pick up a secondary infection from others in the hospital. For another, home atmosphere is considered more conducive to healing in many cases. Most pressing these days is the scarcity of hospital beds. The shorter the average hospital stay, the faster a bed becomes available to others...
Reproduced by photo offset, the authors' works appear in the form in which they were originally published. The whole of James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in 23 issues of the Little Review (1914-29) over a period of three years. The poems of William Butler Yeats and The Waste Land of T. S. Eliot first appeared in the Dial (1880-1929). For the single year that it survived, transatlantic review, edited by Ford Madox Ford in Paris, gave voice to such American expatriates of the 1920s as Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. This Quarter, another European-based...
...meeting yesterday, the District committee agreed to hold the series from June 3-June 6 at the University of Connecticut. This scheduling avoids exam period conflicts at Harvard and Providence College which had threatened the team's participation. The Committee had originally slated the playoff for next weekend...
...Left of idealistic socialism nor the New Left of angry anarchism is likely to applaud. But he is dealing with only the next 20 years of American life, and, he observes accurately, it is not realistic "to expect that the American people will decide to transform capitalism during that period." To get something done, one must "locate a radical program midway between immediate feasibility and ultimate Utopia." He has little patience with calls for instant destruction of the existing order: "A hazy apocalypse is no substitute for an inadequate liberalism...