Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inquest does finally end the matter as far as the law is concerned, it may not completely clear up public uncertainty about the morality and maturity of Kennedy's actions on that long July night. What did Chappaquiddick reveal about his judgment? His reaction under stress? His fitness for higher office? The full inquest transcript could conceivably help resolve some of these doubts when it is released. But Mary Jo Kopechne will still be dead, and many will still wonder whether Kennedy did all he possibly could have done to prevent her death...
...meet this commendable expectation," he says. "all of us ... must now work more diligently to channel into constructive advance the latent energy and fundamental goodwill which motivated so many Harvard people during this past year of stress and turbulence...
...tones recalling The Great Evasion (1964), Williams rejects "mass democracy" within the marketplace system and advocates decentralization in a final section entitled "From Empire to Community." As he used to stress in his lectures at Wisconsin, the honest investigation of historical problems leads inevitably beyond history into the most fundamental of political questions. His new book is a testament to that kind of faith in the relevance of history. The real debate on how to live without the open door must now begin...
...Studies suggest that a significant and perhaps increasing proportion of our population falls into the category of diagnosable mental illness," Grinspoon said. "Faced with high levels of environmental or intro-psychic stress, both groups, healthy and ill, may revert to more primitive modes of thinking, often characterized by magical explanations and symbolic usage...
When it comes to Debussy's own compositions, most interpreters stress the dream more than the senses. They see Debussy's rejection of the robust rhetoric of 19th century Romantic music as part of a drift into a fantasy world. They render his refined, precisely shaded instrumental effects as the perpetual murmuring of a soul in reverie. At best, this approach makes Debussy into an intriguing original of French music. At worst, it produces a kind of clair de lunacy: conductors seem to be using a stick of incense rather than a baton, and listeners are enveloped...