Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System" you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...Frances Lear has a serious enemy, it is the youth culture, which she blames for confining some women to birdcage existences. "Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential," she laments. "We must look into the mirror and smile." She caustically castigates the youth culture for denying sexuality to mature women and instilling in them a sense of inferiority. Her frequent fantasy is to annihilate the Playboy magazine mentality that she blames for psychologically crippling women by attaching a Playmate's age and dimensions to female sexuality. "Someday we will have...
...Soviets on reducing short-range nuclear weapons in Europe. West Germany, where most of the 88 U.S. Lance missile launchers are situated -- and where many of the missiles would explode in wartime -- has virtually demanded that the U.S. begin "early" negotiations. The Germans have enough support to force a serious split within NATO if the U.S. continues to say no. Britain, the Netherlands and Turkey support the U.S., while Bonn has the backing of Italy, Greece and most of the other continental European countries; others, including Norway and Canada, are trying to broker a compromise. But Bush is unmoved...
...strikers' high-tech gear, the pain is real enough. In better times the miners never worked on a Sunday (most are serious churchgoers; many are preachers). They earned more than $600 a week, had free medical benefits, seemed content with their simple lives in the savage hills and mountains of old Appalachia. For 14 months they worked without a contract while negotiating a new pact with the Pittston Coal Group, which operates some 40 mines in the region...
...report issued by UHS says that approximately 7 percent of Americans suffer from alcoholism--the most serious of these long-term problems...