Word: regressiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grand themes found in the Bible throughout church history are missing: the power and love of God, the high-risk gift of Christ, the Holy Spirit's promise of hope. The current episode of regress will pass. Fortunately, TIME tells us that there is a surge of Bible reading. I hope it leads to what Samuel Sandmel calls The Enjoyment of Scripture. In TIME'S article, few seem to be enjoying much of anything...
...enough of turning Vonnegut into literary scholarship. Space Daisy would do great service to a deserving writer if she filmed The Vonnegut Statement. She could borrow the Slaughterhouse-Five technique of running the film backward (the bombers suck up their bombs which regress to factory parts and finally harmless ores) and so rebury the "objective correlatives" and "eschatological imperatives" in the uncomplicated plea sures and meanings of the original novels...
...Harvard team is working on the production of an antibody against TAF which might also cause already large tumors--for which surgery is not feasible--to regress. Folkman said...
...common denominator in many of these symptoms is excessive anxiety triggered by the realistic fear of a quake's havoc. Explains Dr. Stephen Howard of the San Fernando Valley Child Guidance Clinic: "If something bad happens, children feel responsible: maybe their bad thoughts caused it." Adults, too, can regress to atavistic fantasy. "Their first response is to think it's the wrath of God, maybe even the Apocalypse," says Dr. Edward Stainbrook of the University of Southern California...
...soon. a higher number will be reached in an early month than in a later one. The critical point is that the current speed of thirty numbers per month will slow up appreciably as the pool grows. Furthermore, there is a chance that the numbers will actually start to regress-reach a high point of 240 or 250 or 260 in August or September, and then not rise above 200 for the rest of the year...