Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood pieces are all of a type: the single, lonely, distillusioned, frustrated youth who has found out that the real Harvard is not the Harvard of his dreams. The authors of these articles even have a tendency to repeat themselves: "a tweed jacket, a bottle of Scotch, and a copy of Eliot's poetry" (p. 43); "Scotch, tweed, Eliot (House?) were the parameters" (p. 53); "hurried up Mass. Ave. toward the graveyard at the corner of Garden" (p. 47); "up to the small graveyard at the corner of Garden Street" (p. 146). The only two really rewarding parts...
...every such case studied at two Pittsburgh clinics, the wife knew of her husband's drinking problem before marriage. ("Marriage to an alcoholic is no accident," echoed the University of North Carolina's Dr. John A. Ewing. "Some women repeat it two or three times.") Dr. Browne cited one woman of 27 who had been beaten as a child by her father, kicked out of the house at 14 by her mother, married at 20 to a drunk. She could take these buffetings, but when her husband was cured of his addiction, she deliberately provoked arguments to start...
Discontent seethed through a knot of delegates last week as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sat down in Washington for its 47th annual meeting. A top item on the agenda was an annual policy statement that was expected to repeat the chamber's traditionally liberal view of foreign trade, plumping for reduction of tariffs and elimination of quotas. Only a week before, four Congressmen at the biennial meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce in Washington had warned that protectionism is on the rise in the U.S. Now a group of chamber members set out to prove it. Representing...
This book implies a moral stated by Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A repeat of the film on the building of the 3,600-m.p.h. X-15 rocket plane, and a look at the men who will...