Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never one of scientific "fact," but a fascinating mythology. The mythology can work successfully as part of treatment. But in the hands of amateurs, only a grotesquely distorted version remains, with its talk about stamp collecting as anal and piano playing as masturbatory. "That belongs to an earlier period," says Critic Alfred Kazin. "By now, people know that the passions are real but not that readily symbolized. There is very little philosophy per se in this country, and Americans have been left high and dry by the evaporation of religion, but in talk about psychoanalysis there is a kind...
...hurt their voices, Mama Maureen insists that it has extended her range by 21 notes on top and 21 on the bottom, "one for each baby." She travels ten months of the year, with bookings arranged so that she can pop home to Toronto. In one recent six-day period, she jetted from San Francisco to Toronto to New Orleans to Vienna to Puerto Rico to Vienna to Toronto. In addition, she stops off twice a month to teach at Philadelphia's Musical Academy, where she is chairman of the voice department. In her spare time she embroiders...
...only alive but kicking-80% of it to the sounds of recorded music. Over the past decade, the number of radios in use in the U.S. has grown from 124 million to 242 million, TV sets from 37 million to 72 million. Radio sales during the same period have outstripped TV, increasing from 14 million sets annually to 23 million, as compared to TV's growth from 7,000,000 to 11 million...
Dudley Blodget got the Crimson back into the contest with a score four minutes into the third quarter. But ten minutes later Williams widened its lead to 3-1, and that's the way it stood through the final period...
...pick reserve book shelves clean. It would be a rare Cliffies who would choose to trudge to Lamont just to get a book when a much more attractive building sat just a few steps outside her door. Nor would Cliffies be likely to brave the snows of January reading period to crowd the boys out of their accustomed carrels...