Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Department, after a Jan. 4 meeting with Asseyev in the presence of Soviet officials, granted him permission to stay in the United States after his official visa expires in June. He has a wife and child in the Soviet Union, and according to friends has been under great emotional stress...
Only 40 years ago, a small island in Chesapeake Bay supported a few deer. They were given plenty of food, and they multiplied enthusiastically. But when the population reached one deer per acre, the animals began to die off. Their internal organs showed "adrenal stress," just like the Minnesota rabbits...
...Social Stress. Anxious to learn how overcrowding does work, Calhoun put rats in four interconnected pens six feet square. Two of the pens were quickly pre-empted by boss male rats that kept harems of females and allowed no other males to mate with them. The harem females made proper nests, bore healthy young and raised them successfully. But in the other two pens, where no single males took charge, social stress was rampant. Some of the males gave the females no rest. Others turned homosexual or hid in corners. The females stopped making proper nests, and their young, born...
...though most inmates of crowded human slums escape to pleasanter places from time to time, he says, many slums show a social pathology (crime, delinquency, street gangs, psychotic behavior) as did the pens of crowded rats. In concentration camps, where no respite from crowding was possible, humans developed adrenal stress. In the future, Hoagland fears, if crowding gets out of hand, nature may strike with horrible and unpredictable ills to check further human increases...
...need movable walls for instant subdivision of big lecture halls into small seminar rooms, and vice versa. Physics labs must be convertible to biology labs almost overnight. Libraries need individual studies for independent research, computers to replace the card catalogue. To offset the anonymity of mass learning, dormitories should stress small-group living, even incorporate classrooms...