Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performance conveyed this bubbling yet mildly pained mood; Paula Robison on flute, especially, gave linear definition by her subtle stress on the downbeat in sixteenth-note passages. The first violins tended to chop off an upbeat eight notes aftera similar stress on the downbeats (a not uncommon failing)--but the total balance was excellent, and had the drive of authentic Baroque spirit...
...evening News to halt its steady loss of readers to the morning Free Press (daily circulation up 22% in ten years to 622,339, only 5,122 behind the News). Last month the News roused its reporters' wrath with an internal memo announcing that the "product" would henceforth stress stories about "Detroit and its horrors that are discussed at suburban cocktail parties." The subscription drive has met with similar hostility. Complained a Newspaper Guild officer: "That's just not our role. The obvious answer to the circulation problem is to put out a better newspaper...
...years of marriage, and they abstain completely for four to six years after the birth of a child. Premarital and extramarital sex are virtually unknown, and there is apparently no homosexuality or other sexual outlet. What is more, no one seems to show any signs of unhappiness or stress...
...Family Stress. She has never endured a tragedy like the one described in Ordinary People or been to a psychiatrist. But she is fascinated by how individual members of any family handle stress, and she has learned to live through deep bouts of depression, counting on experience and commitment to carry her through. Says she: "That's what the young don't have. That's why a boy like Conrad is so vulnerable." As for guilt: "Everybody's got that...
...report also says that the MIT training program does not stress commercial applications and that the kind of technology studied is relevant for both commercial and military purposes...