Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened quite accidentally. Dr. Theodosius Dobzhansky, one of the world's foremost genetic researchers, was experimenting with an amber-colored South American fruit fly known as Drosophila paulistorum at Manhattan's Rockefeller University. He was interested in one particular strain of the fly from the Llanos district of Colombia, and he isolated it from other strains in 1958. Five years later he and his assistant, Dr. Olga Pavlovsky, routinely attempted to interbreed the Llanos flies with similar strains and observe the results of the mating...
Three other scales from the Myers Briggs Type Indicator add another dimension. The psychiatric group was higher on the scale for unconscious strain, or what might be interpreted as a sense of vulnerability, but lower on the scale for constructive reaction, or what we might think of as a feeling of competence in or capacity for coping. They are also lower on the scale for self-confidence, although the differences reached an acceptable rate of probability for the 1964 sample only. The 1965 sample difference was in the same direction, however...
...seven years, the case bounced through nine appeals in state and federal courts. The strain was so great on Miller, who could only sit and wait on death row, that he was twice transferred to the psychiatric ward. Seven and a half hours before he was scheduled to be electrocuted in 1963, Miller won a stay for a federal habeas corpus hearing before Judge Perry, who heard testimony that raised troubling questions about the evidence in the 1956 trial...
...resistance to change, the subordination of the individual to the overall design. Above all, it helps to account for the periodic outbursts of violence in a land that values nonviolence. When society is repressed, when forms are meticulously observed, when balance is sought above all, sooner or later the strain can become too much. The reaction is then apt to be more violent than in a society that is psychologically accustomed to struggle, and considers it a law of life...
Torture & Bankruptcy. While still rare, this strain of protest against a regime is being heard more often throughout Eastern Europe. In Hungary, a recent short novel described the torture methods of the secret police and another gave an insider's look at the bolshe vita of Communist fat cats in the early 1950s. There is also a Hungarian version of Catcher in the Rye, in which the author, a 17-year-old schoolboy, admits in disgust: "I can't stand it that the Americans announce the launching of a rocket a month before and the Russians only when...