Word: proving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington's intimidating society. On the other hand, a young wife should not be unduly nervous about reminding her husband of their age difference-elaborately avoiding another set of tennis or politely yawning at 11 p.m. Most older men will only react by trying doubly hard to prove how young they are, sweating it out on the tennis court or discothequing it way past their bedtime...
...doctors on salary and then charging patients for their services. For nearly three decades the A.M.A. was almost as strongly opposed to group practice, in which a number of physicians set up shop together and divide the fees collected from all their patients. The A.M.A. feared that this would prove to be a step toward socialized medicine...
...recent concerts-last week at Philadelphia's Academy of Music, the week before at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art* Nina and her audiences have connected early on, and it has been a ball all the way. She has danced around her piano once or twice to prove it. For their part, the audiences have greeted her message things with complete concurrence, as well as applause and standing ovations...
Psychologists and other social scientists study the actions and reactions of the albino rat to learn about human behavior. Now a University of Wash ington psychologist, Robert B. Lockard, suggests in American Psychologist that the laboratory lessons may be invalid, and that the rats do not prove much about people. The reason is that the albino rat-a mutant form of the wild brown rat-is a genetic monster of dubious value to research. Caged and bred in captivity for more than a century, it is a man-made abomination-fat and degenerate, faithful neither to its wild ancestry...
Where he goes from here is an intriguing question, and could prove a serious dilemma for him. There is quite a difference between letting go and catching on, and with Portnoy's Complaint, Roth has caught on, but good. He has said that he will write about catching...