Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, go to Judgment at Nuremberg (at the Saxon, LI 2-4600) if you want to relax. Too many characters in it rant and shout; too often the camera sweeps in dizzying circles. One is left physically exhausted at the end. But it is, perhaps, worth it to see Judy Garland gone to seed (way over the rainbow) and hear Marlene Dietrich sing a snatch of Lili Marlene. The producers of the film undoubtedly think they have made the epic of the decade and solved all possible moral questions of Nazi Germany...
...consensus, the most single-minded of the group in his determination to get into space. Says Scott Carpenter, Glenn's back-up astronaut: "Most people need a break in the routine to relax and unwind. But not John. He needs no diversion. He's all business and darned hard to keep up with." What is more, Glenn has so devoted himself to the success of the mission that he has come to look upon himself as just another piece of machinery in the system...
Invisible or not, the great planetary conjunction chilled superstitious souls all over the world. For weeks Indian soothsayers had been predicting floods, earthquakes and several other forms of calamity (TIME, Jan. 19). Some of the doomsayers saw only two days of danger; some warned that the world could not relax for five nervous years. In Sikkim, the scheduled marriage of the maharajah's son to New York Post-Debutante Hope Cooke was put off until 1963. The ill-omened year 1962, said the royal astrologers, was no time for a princely wedding...
...young man's images of past and present, the strain of his relationships with the people he knows now and those he remembers, that produces tension. With his analyst and employer, each aware of the young man's problem and each professionally involved in the prognosis, he can relax. But he begins to falter at the recognition of the curious parallel between his present landlady and her husband, and his childhood family. Yet the final test comes from the woman who loves him and her young daughter; for he is forced to obliterate once and for all the distortions...
...wiser among us will, of course, have already prepared a private family fallout shelter or, better still, will have reserved space in the community shelter (which, in peacetime, can serve a useful public function: "Gregarious teenagers often have no after-school hangout where they can relax with sodas and play the jukebox. This shelter can serve such purposes admirably; here a Scout meeting is going on in one section while adults attend an illustrated lecture in another...