Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...food, steals the socks off a dead comrade who once saved her life, and finally becomes a dread Kapo-"head" or trusty-who assumes guard duties, wielding a rubber truncheon against fellow inmates. This unsympathetic behavior nearly amounts to a forceful statement about the corruption of human values under stress, except that the beast in Actress Strasberg is patently far too tame. Cast as a bossy, driving turn-cat, she somehow remains pensive and soulful-eyed, falls predictably in love with a handsome P.W., and dies heroically just as Soviet guns begin to boom beyond the surrounding hills...
...system that has seduced so many good writers and artists into working for corporations and their ad agencies, thus creating "a sort of debased intellectual class who, by way of their knowledge and skill, have become rather the writing hands of business, than outright businessmen"; and the great stress placed on the chap marks of education "with the B.A. a tollgate to a business career, the Ph.D. to an academic one." Essentially good humored and tolerant, Kronenberger charges other men with folly rather than outright evil, and recognizes that the very extremism that often makes the U.S. unbearable has helped...
Unlike many architects, who accent the creative, Daly likes to stress architecture's business side. He has devel oped a well-honed staff that seeks out technically difficult jobs that are often avoided by competitors. Daly favors boxy, square buildings, has been criticized for not being experimental and exciting. By way of answer he recalls how in college he once designed some gaudy neckties for a Baltimore com pany. "I still wonder how the poor men who bought them lived with them," he says. "Of course, that's what my competitors say about my work...
...trouble if she had been tough a little earlier in the day. Juliana was brought up under the domineering thumb of her mother, the great Wilhelmina, and was determined that her own daughters should have a happier childhood. Crown Princess Beatrix received a good education with a stress on her coming constitutional role, but the three other girls were scarcely trained as princesses and had wide freedom. A friend of the royal family recalls, "Sometimes weeks would go by when the Queen had no idea what Irene was doing...
...later confront unnecessarily painful questions, including the constitutionality of tax exemption for churches. Such future troubles could have been avoided, critics say, had the court arrived at the same school decisions by a somewhat different route-the First Amendment's "free exercise" clause, thus allowing the court to stress freedom of worship and thus to follow the logic of an increasingly pluralistic society...