Word: recurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 41 years of composing precise, graceful works, it is a wonder that the old Piston, now 73, has not worn down. "At my age," he admits, "ideas do recur, but when they do, you simply have to throw them...
...rate of at least 98%. Yet all skin cancer cannot be lightly dismissed. Each year it claims 80,000 new victims and causes 4,000 deaths in the U.S., largely because some forms are highly malignant and remain virtually incurable. To make matters worse, the easily curable forms sometimes recur in numbers, and if they are not removed, they, too, be come lethal. For patients who have many superficial skin cancers, in which surgery or radiation is impossible or would be too disfiguring, a New York researcher described a new chemical treatment last week that is as simple...
...erotic scenes recur with increasing intensity and without direction toward any well-defined, wholesome idea." As of now in California, declared the court, Chant d'Amour is "nothing more than hard-core pornography, and should be banned...
...books have strong qualities in common, and some of the qualities are deplorable. Sick sex and vicious violence recur with obsessive frequency, and so do a number of Eng. Lit. leftovers; several of the new novelists describe clouds that look "like grey wool." At least half of them, however, make nervy experiments in fictional form, and almost all show the kind of ultimate concern with human beings that is no less religious because it calls itself existential. In almost every instance, the writers courageously explore the shape of a new fiction in form and spirit adequate...
...face, sometimes affects the forehead and eye region, but more often concentrates its attack on the cheek and jaw. In early stages, the stabs of pain last only a few seconds and may be hours apart. In more severe cases -and most victims get progressively worse-pains may recur several times a minute for hours or days, and leave a continuous "background" ache. During severe bouts, victims cannot shave, or even wash; they cannot brush their teeth or eat solid food...