Word: symptom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything approaching sense that one is hard pressed to believe it ever occurred. Far better it were the creation of some absurdist gone mad. That the Federal Theatre, which Mrs. Flanagan represented, could be investigated for producing Marlowe, for putting on "collectivist" children's plays, is only one symptom of the national disease...
...other great symptom of the Porter epidemic is an absolutely dazzling two-record set. "Bobby Short Loves Cole Porter", (Atlantic Records). Bobby Short is an old New York night club singer, who has been doing a one man Porter review for over a year now. He's the top. He's the Colosseum...
That kind of defect, however, accounts for only about 20% of the retarded in the U.S. For the other 80%. who are functionally rather than physically retarded, physicians can rarely find precise causes. A growing number of experts believe that this nonspecific, generally milder form of retardation, the primary symptom of which is poor intellectual performance, is a socioeconomic disease. While genetic, chromosomal and hereditary causes occur with about the same frequency in all racial and economic groups, retardation of unknown origin is nearly ten times more likely to occur among the poor, black and Spanish-speaking...
...means that Gloria cooks breakfast with her mother), the show's lack of concern for the social and economic issues that surround raw bigotry, and Archie's unbelievability. But such criticisms would be missing the point; such problems are not particular to All in the Family, but are a symptom of TV's general vacuity. All characters, whether bourgeois or proletarian, are stereotyped, and consequently become a kind of substitute reality in the minds of their audiences. Several years ago, when Jerry Mathers, the actor who played Beaver Cleaver, was rumored killed in Vietnam, people seemed almost more saddened than...
Another 54 children also showed high lead content in their blood. "We found some kids with foot drop, a symptom of lead poisoning," adds Rosenblum. "This occurs when nerves become paralyzed, and the person cannot hold his foot up from the ankle. Mothers also told us of children who were irritable and had loss of weight. These can be signs of lead poisoning...