Word: readjusting
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...level, Leven had inserted stylized mood scenes on topics like the mechanization of love. Leftist political satire collided with slapstick routines. Each new offering neutralized the effect of the one that preceded it only to be wiped out in turn itself. The show left the audience bewildered, unable to readjust its expectations so drastically from moment to moment...
Once the Quakers can readjust their offense to function without Molloy, they should have a reasonably good attack. But that will take time, since Molloy has been their one-man team for three years...
Such sharp. variations from city to city have become the national pattern in housing. The $26 billion industry which has been in an overall slump since mid-53, is undergoing what economists call "a rolling geographical readjust ment" - with major dips in some areas erasing gains in others. So far this year, housing starts across the U.S. are down 8% from a year ago despite gains in March and April. But in the West, where a quarter of the nation's new housing is normally concentrated, the decline is much sharper because of earlier overbuilding, cutbacks in defense industries...
...obvious question is whether it is necessary to take LSD to gain Leary's insights into culture. Leary's LSD sessions at the Concord state prison apparently helped some convicts to readjust. But this is a fairly specific rehabilitative use of the drug...
...gone." Yet these reliefs are short-lived, and Chayes hopes to return to teaching in a few years. Before he returns, he wants to go to Europe for a vacation. "The pace has been almost too quick here, and I need a de-compression chamber before I can readjust...