Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women contemplating abortion can now turn for advice to a concise and straightforward book written by a young New York mother under the auspices of Planned Parenthood of New York City. Abortion: A Woman's Guide (Abelard-Schuman; $5.95 or $2.95 paperback) begins with a discussion of the emotional complexities of terminating pregnancy, goes on to describe abortion techniques in nontechnical terms and concludes with an essay on fertility control. For those who are uneasy about abortion, there is also an index of clergy consultation services and Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country. The text is written with unusual...
...Relief. In some respects, it was a brilliantly crafted speech, straightforward sounding and without the self-pity of last April's performance. It was carefully balanced between shouldering the blame and pushing it off on others, between condemning Watergate and excusing it, between criticizing the cover-up and justifying it on security grounds...
...crisis in American medicine. There are hard decisions to be made (TIME, July 16) about when a patient really ceases to live though he is technically still alive, as well as about staggering costs, medical needs and, indeed, the requirements of pure humanity. Such subjects, though, demand either a straightforward, rigorous, get-the-whole-story old journalism, or the fictional honesty and complexity of that other doctor...
...Excessive suspicion. For Europeans, who see themselves caught between two superpowers, it takes only a little imagination to invent innumerable diabolical theories to explain every American action, no matter how straightforward or innocent...
...layman's natural curiosity about whether or not Nixon's illness may have been brought on by Watergate, there is a straightforward, nonpolitical answer. Anyone is more than usually susceptible to illness brought on by transient, everyday germs in periods of stress, when he may be sleeping poorly and working too hard. Thus it is most unlikely that Nixon's illness provides any psychosomatic insights into his feelings about Watergate-but quite possible that his first bout with illness since becoming President is the indirect result of that unhappy affair...