Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilson's words were addressed to a changing Europe that is eager for visions. The postwar period has ended; old alliances are shifting. Western Europe is gripped by a sudden fascination with building bridges to Eastern Europe. For the first time since World War II, Europe feels that it has the strength and stature to shape its own destiny. So far, the most insistent influence on that destiny has been Charles de Gaulle, who wants an inward-looking Europe of independent yet friendly fatherlands extending from the Channel to the Urals-and free from U.S. influence...
...close down by 1970. Only two-Lord Thomson's Sunday Times and Cecil King's Daily Mirror-can face the future with any kind of confidence. From 1957 to 1964, newspaper profits rose 29%, while editorial costs jumped 98% and production wages soared 130%. During this period, only seven papers succeeded in increasing their revenues more than their costs. Average circulation fell 6%, which was an indication that the rise in population is not enough to offset the "decreasing interest in buying newspapers...
Thoughts are errant during exam period. The worlds of fact and doctrine ("Birds cannot actually fly; they are merely prodigious leapers!') collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60c ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would...
...warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam period. Hell, no, I unicycle out to Revere Beach every morning...
...Exam period and the application season are a favorite time for browsing through such literature and thinking about The Future. A perusal of the two reports shows that...