Word: stems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernard Lown, professor of Cardiology, who headed the sudden death study, said yesterday his team identified "transient risk factors" that stem from emotional response to fear and stress...
...honest opinion that George Wallace can and will be the Saviour of these United States. We can, with your leadership, stem the flow of rot that is beginning to seep into the South from the North. It has already reached Nashville and is oozing like cancer through the Southern States...
...that sense, Cornell's work is very much part of the history of surrealism. It grows from the same stem: a fascination with dreams, nuances, fugitive image-clusters, arcane fragments of memory and culture-an outgrowth of romanticism that, by the end of the 19th century, had accumulated a formidable literature. Cornell, who worshiped Mallarmé for his exactitude of feeling, was the last symbolist poet-a pretty symmetry, for the symbolists were much inspired by another American, Edgar Allan...
...AGREE. Jackson and Wallace state outright what Carter merely implies--that America's ills stem from the federal government's attempt to aid the poor and minorities. Wallace speaks to genuine issues such as unemployment and inflation, but in a wholly destructive and superficial manner, diverting the electorate's attention from the roots of these problems in America's social structure. Instead, Wallace chooses to focus his appeal solely on divisive issues such as busing which are only manifestations of much more profound conflicts in American life. Jackson has been tripping over himself in his attempt to present himself...
...gradual withdrawal from the U.S. was under way. In 1963 he began spending much of his time in Rome, soaking up local color for his first novel in ten years. Julian (1964), a vivid study of the 4th century Roman Emperor who vainly tried to stem the spread of Christianity, was a surprise bestseller. A string of successful novels followed, including the memoirs of Myra Breckinridge (1968), Vidal's funniest word on fuddled sexual identity...