Word: regressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeds of cultural change have been sown; Harvard can contribute creatively to cultural change or regress to a system of strict sex-segregation and no parietals. John Hartman...
...replaced Salinger's long-loved Catcher in the Rye in undergraduate affections and book bags. It was an ominous replacement. On the surface, the story tells of a band of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a desert island during a nuclear war, and describes how they regress from summer-camp camaraderie into savagery, sadism and murder. Between Golding's lines lies a frightening parable of evil, a strong case for the revival of the unfashionable concept of original sin, and an attempt, as he says, to "trace the defects of human society back to the defects...
...more important is that the ratio of the two substances changes. Later in life, the body makes proportionately less of the retarding retine. From our experiments so far, it looks as though changing the ratio back, by doubling the amount of retine, is necessary to make cancer regress...
...upward-looking soliloquy that treats very wisely of life and death, Miss Duke asks a contemporary with open-mouthed wonder, "Duh--what's an agnostic?" Miss Duke and her playmate (James Aubrey) seem mature beyond their years throughout most of the play, but in the final scene they regress practically back to the womb, before surging back into virtual senescence for some metaphysical meanderings...
...eyes of easily distracted average readers regress eight to eleven times per 100 words. Teacher Wood's beginning students curb this tendency by running their fingers under each line, then every other line, until they learn the "whirlaway motion"-a series of circular sweeps down the middle of the page. In 2½-hour sessions (plus one hour of daily practice), they read faster and faster against a clock, get constant quizzes on comprehension...