Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action was an unqualified success. Few of the sleepless victims will have the strength to pass exams. Temporarily the System could relax. Yesterday, however, a disturbing report reached the central office that one of the fluorescent lights in Lamont had stopped buzzing...
...encourages me to relax in unspoiled dairy country...
...Relax. Any good kindergarten teacher knows that her kids in fact yearn to read. But Johnny can't read at 4½ because "research shows" that "reading readiness" comes at 6½. Even when he gets the chance, it may not be worth it. The fatuous "basal reader" with its Oh-Oh-Sue-said trivia destroys all joy in words. Mayer calls this "the most serious single criticism that can be made of the schools...
Whoever writes the reviews on television doesn't know what he is talking about. I watch television to be entertained and to relax my mind from the everyday grind, and as such I do not like, and will not watch, any program that tries to delve into racial or religious or any other turmoil of the day. And it just makes me boil when some joker implies that people are jerks because they don't demand symphonies or opera or some other kind of high-toned programs...
...encourages me to relax in unspoiled dairy country...