Word: pertains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this slackening occurred? For several reasons, all of which pertain to the general corruption of life as well as to that of the insult. There is psychiatry, for one thing. Mothers can no longer be joked about; victims agree with the worst that is said about them. There is provincialism, for another. Oscar Wilde explained: "Of course, America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up." You could not get away with that today, even if you thought of it, because nations are as touchy as individuals. Then, too, no one wields real criticism...
...Well, I think that there is a lot of white-collar work that is obviously dehumanizing--like clerical work or in the insurance office. A lot of factory principles pertain there: the use of standards and the structure of the organization, the use of technology and electronic data processing...