Word: relax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There may be one color-Army or Marine Corps green-in the foxhole, but there are two worlds when the races relax. During off-duty hours 56 per cent of he black GI's seek out other blacks; on liberty and R and R trips, even more travel only with blacks. One in five blacks said he depised whites, and only 17 per cent counted whites among their best friends...
...have been worried by rumors that Harvard is planning to demolish MEMORIAL HALL. Well, relax. According to Richard G. Leahy, associate dean of the Faculty for resources and planning, the old white elephant will probably be standing when we are all dead and gone. On other fronts, yesterday was quiet. An SDS rally to support a boycott of GM drew about 50 people to the steps of Mem Church. A man in Sao Paolo, Brazil, began serving a prison term for biting his pet dog to death. The national government of Tannu Tuva dissolved itself sine die. The City Fathers...
...words dominated our lives inside the Intercontinental-"incoming" and "outgoing." The first was shorthand for "We're being shot at." It was usually uttered while diving to the floor. The second meant we could relax, the bullets were headed in another direction. For some time to come, whenever I hear "incoming," I will probably have to restrain myself from falling flat and thinking suitable last thoughts...
These experiences are accessible to many ordinary people, note Masters and Houston, but they do require an ability to relax one's everyday grip on externals and allow deep internal processes of the mind to surface. Recently TIME Religion Researcher Clare Mead visited the foundation. Without any stimulus except the direction of Dr. Houston, she underwent a half-hour-long "inner odyssey." Her account...
...private bash afterwards, Mailer could not originally relax. Thirsting for his base hit, he called surviving Niemans around his feet to attempt his speech anew. By now, however, fortyodd children of the grape clamored and whooped in their private adventures. The Nieman Class Lover had eyes only for a stunning visitor from the Mailer entourage, The Class Drunk stood in the kitchen loudly quoting Invictus, the wife of a magazine editor complained that we had chuckled rather than fought when Mailer called us whores. Our guest soon abandoned oratory for a night of innocent reveling- including vigorous bouts of thumb...