Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times are bad, blacks are often the first to lose their jobs -though there have been no noticeable layoffs of black skilled workers during the current recession. Says a $35,000-a-year urban planning executive in Detroit: "We constantly live with the paranoia that we'll get sick or fired. I'm constantly aware of the fact that if I were out of work for six months, I'd be on the skids...
...night, he smoked a little too much, and went to bed feeling sick. That night, he had a terrible dream. He could not remember it too well the next day, but the bits and pieces were frightening enough. He dreamed that in his senior year, he wrote a thesis that the Government Department rejected because of an incorrect citation. His adviser read the thesis, praised it, and had not mentioned any possibility that his footnotes might be improper. The rejection was hard enough to accept, but then the department decided to make an example of his case, and denied...
Stanford won't let Shockley teach genetics, so the self-appointed "raceologist" will have to keep looking for speaking engagements. Maybe by next year universities will have gotten sick of him; college life is bad enough without Shockley around to make it worse...
...relation between fiction and life, how they can mutually invade each other's territory and both lose a locked combat. To show that is for Roth to put himself as a novelist on the couch of literary analysis, hoping to show that the novel is not dead or sick, only disturbed in mind. But just to talk about the problems is not enough: Roth should take Spielvogel's advice and "perhaps to begin" again...
Authority official who told him, after he pleaded for a few more weeks to harvest the family's crops before going to Tule Lake: "Unless you're stupid, crippled or sick-all you Japs get on that...