Word: relaxants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relax, Meany loves to play pool with one of his teen-age grandsons, or to shoot a round of golf with one of his sons-in-law. Twenty or more years ago he started painting pictures by numbers and has progressed from primitive oils, reminiscent of bad Grandma Moses, to wild impressionism. Meany also taught himself to play the piano by ear and now has a console organ in his home. At night, passersby can sometimes hear him beating out Dixieland jazz and old Irish ballads. After three martinis, a solid meal and a good cigar, Meany may break into...
...dead proposition suggested by the audience into a theater alive with laughter (no matter if "smoking," "abortion," and "overeating" all turned up in this show again--the skits were always creative). As the actors came backstage from their final bows to give out mutual hugs of congratulations and relax briefly before the next show, a total rapport and group assurance seemed to wash over all the anxious tensions and worries of the past two hours, and even those of the show to come. After seven years, the aftermath of a success is a good, familiar feeling...
...prison setting often severely restricts the amount of learning or emotional development anyone can accomplish. When an inmate has received drugs shortly before a tutoring session he cannot concentrate. The anxiety of prison life overwhelms many prisoners; it is virtually impossible to learn if you can't relax...
...Crimson, this was to be a breather game. After least weekend's near miss against an excellent Brown team, and with Princeton and Penn lorking in the near future, this was to be the game where Harvard could relax and coast to its eighth victory. Unfortunately, Brandels had other ideas...
...October Movement has control of the sound truck "Down Commonwealth Avenue...Don't stop at the intersection..." The police relax their lines. The march swings left, chanting "The people United. Will never be defeated..." The brown jackets fall to the rear. They are the African Unity League and their leader, Imamu Barak is the only one among them who will acknowledge any questions, All Baraks will reply is, "Just write the story...