Word: relax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Theodorakis is a tall, soft-spoken man with plentiful black curly hair and a soft expressive face pierced by close-set bullet eyes. Except, perhaps, in the six-room Paris apartment where he lives with his physician wife and their teen-age daughter and son, he rarely seems to relax his ideological stance...
...doubt the most closed society in the East bloc-more regimented in many ways than the Soviet Union itself. "We have had to be more Catholic than the Pope," explains one G.D.R. official, "simply because we had no identity, no past as a nation. We could not afford to relax or make mistakes." Even mild criticism of the regime still gets people into trouble, and sometimes into jail. A Leipziger who drank too much schnapps and insulted an official of the Interior Ministry in a pub, for example, was recently sent away for four years. Every factory has its party...
OVERCROWDING at Harvard and Radcliffe will again reach crisis levels this Fall, forcing most Houses to overload many suites and take other extraordinary steps. But both besieged House secretaries and a noticeably calmer Harvard Administration continue to hope the usual safety valves will relax the housing crunch...
...Flucht helfer (Escape Helper). Lately they have become a center of controversy. East German authorities have pressured the West German government to crack down on the impresarios of escape. They claim that Fluchthelfer activities violate the spirit of detente and abuse the terms under which East Germany agreed to relax inspections on some major transit routes between the two Germanys. As a result, West German authorities are now threatening to prosecute the escape merchants...
...blues taught the black man to relax to his conditions," the Mississippi-born composer and performer notes; "It taught the black man to bide his time...