Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Further developing his overall theme of "Art and the Development of Human Consciousness," Read discussed the dichotomy of ancient Greek art and placed special stress on the evolution of "ideal" standardized forms or types in sculpture...
Dean Sert declared that the emphasis in the Department of Architecture has been shifted to stress an even greater movement toward novel expression and freedom of individual creation in the designing of buildings. To achieve this end, courses have been planned in ecstatic and architectural composition...
Super Force. But of all the mistakes the historians have made, "it is the stress on the capitalist spirit that has, I think, done the most harm." From being merely a phrase, "it has become an impersonal, superhuman force." The historians talk about "the inevitable decomposition of capitalist society." This has "introduced a new mysticism into the recounting of plain facts. Things happen because capitalism requires them to happen-even, it may be added, to an end not yet reached." Concludes Ashton: "I do not want to see history written as though its function were to simply exhibit the gradualness...
Exactly how stress then goes on to do its damage is a matter of disagreement among the experts. Heart Specialist Clarence J. Gavey says that even in heart disease stress is not usually associated with physical overexertion, because shortness of breath and exhaustion serve as automatic checks on the heart patient's activities. Dr. Gavey concedes, however, that shocks and anxiety can easily precipitate heart attacks. Anxiety, many of his colleagues agree, is the most dangerous form that stress can take...
Buddhists & Freethinkers. What can be done to reduce the ravages of stress? There is no single rule, for as Psychiatrist Douglas R. MacCalman points out, some men thrive on distractions and dangers that would send others to hospital beds. Suggested the bishop of Manchester: "The church is meant to supply, though I freely admit it does not always do so, one of those deficiencies of modern life which . . . cause stress and anxiety . . . Within the family life of the Christian Church...