Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Darkest Before Dawn. The doctors lured the student volunteers with a graduated pay scale: $20 for staying awake the first 24 hours, $25 for the second and $30 for the third day. Unlike the victims of secret police, the students were subjected to no emotional stress, could pass the time as they pleased-reading, listening to the radio, playing games, talking. Relays of monitors watched them throughout the 72 hours, ready to nudge any who dozed. Remarkably, none...
...Farnsworth does not demonstrate that the psychiatric view offers us any new insights. He tells us to consider "the whole man", but this exhortation is neither helpful nor illuminating He notes that leaving home is often a traumatic experience, that exam period is a time of emotional stress, and that neurotic students often do badly since they cannot work effectively. Such insights are neither novel nor devastating...
...Francis M. Forster, the Army's Lieut. Colonel Roy E. Clausen, Columbia University's Houston H. Merritt and James F. Hammill-though they confirmed the findings of Ike's regular doctors. As for treatment, all they could advise was wait and see, combined with a stress-free routine. They prescribed plenty of rest for Ike, but not the total inertia that was, until recently, standard for victims of strokes, however mild. The only medication that the President got, even in the first stages of his illness, was a mild sedative. Beyond that, he is expected to stay...
...faith. Verlaine learned a "new" French-strong, vigorous and plain. He and Rimbaud broke down "the barrier between poet and reader by using French as it was then spoken"-not as courtiers of the past had spoken it. They changed the monotonous, end-of-line rhyme, throwing the stress not where elegance demanded it, but "where the sense lay." Where Verlaine used the old end rhyme, he made it run rather than halt-and how hauntingly and simply he did it is seen in the opening stanza of one of his loveliest poems, evoking an autumnal mood to the sobs...
Richmond stated that although "we can use as many volunteers as we can possibly get, our concern is not primarily with numbers. We feel that the stress should be on quality...