Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the end, Hoveida maintained that the policies he carried out for the Shah would have worked had they been given more time. "I should like to stress that if there is need for a victim," he told the court, "I am willing to be it." After his death sentence was read last week, he reportedly asked for a month's stay of execution so that he could write his memoirs. It was refused. Hoveida was shot by a firing squad using Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns...
Unlike their 19th century predecessors, today's doctors rarely see the disease; medical schools do not stress it. A 1977 study at Scott Air Force Base revealed that of 130 patients referred there for TB, 73 had been misdiagnosed or given inadequate therapy by their original physician...
...along with fear these days comes also the faint scent of a new kind of courage, the renewed understanding that in every moment of stress there is opportunity. While searching for a nuclear accommodation with the Soviet Union, the U.S. seems to be showing more understanding of our power, both military and economic. Holmes contended that character emerged from adversity, heroes from heroics. There are no more battles of Ball's Bluff or Antietam with trumpets and cannons, but it is a time for our own brand of heroics and heroes, men and women who in these next months...
...social blueprints, though quite unworkable ones. Perhaps Russia was the only country in which artists could seriously imagine that abstract art might attain the moral compulsion of a holy picture. Chashnik's Large Suprematist Relief (1920-26), finished a few years before he died at 27, lays no stress on its materials; it is a pure proposition of the kind of half religious ideal that was soon to be censored out of Russian art by Stalin. On the other hand, the work of Iwan Puni and Vladimir Tallin was virtually dialectical materialism transferred into art-"real materials," as Tatlin...
Brown may stress academics, but it likes jocks, too, especially after suffering with a football team that went 9-58-2 in the Ivy League during the '60s. At Rogers' elbow are "depth charts" listing athletes by sport, the position they play and ranking by Brown coaches, usually on a scale of 1 to 6. There are also depth charts for alumni children, music, art, theater. The music department, for instance, rates oboists and violinists by ability and the orchestra's need for them. That evening Rogers meets with the hockey coach to review 82 prospects. Picking...