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...times recently, Nixon has been in the uncharacteristic position of actually pursuing the press himself-a minor symptom of his tendency to veer from one extreme to another. Two weeks ago, NBC's Barbara Walters was about to embark on a vacation when she received a call from the White House inviting her to bring down a camera crew for what became a two-hour interview for the Today show. Broadcast last week, the program had Nixon chatting about his wife Pat, American family life and other values. When the interviewer prodded him gently about his "stuffy" image...
...unhappy conformists he wrote about, and his bludgeoning style proved appropriate for depicting men of unexpected intelligence thrown into situations where long-hidden sensitivities are laid bare. The excitement of From Here to Eternity lay in the author's recognition that his spirit of negation was not a symptom of languor or hopelessness, but of a conscious anti-social bent. The awkward writing did not seriously flaw the novel's tone of anguished experience: Jones was justifying his existence through the printed word. The drama he evoked out of his own sweat and blood and pathos was at times self...
...reading of one part per million of cadmium is harmful to humans. Takako's liver contained 4,540 p.p.m., her kidneys 22,400 p.p.m. Scientists speculated that she breathed cadmium particles and fumes generated by the plant's smelting process, and pointed out that a major symptom of such poisoning, decalcification of bones, is not detectable by X ray until the bones have lost about 30% of their calcium...
Triggered Anxiety. Among children, a typical symptom is fear of leaving their parents. Twenty-five percent of schoolchildren in the affected area stayed home on the first day schools reopened; some, including Charisse, agreed to return only if their parents drove them to and from school. Says Secretary Joyce Shahin of her seven-year-old son: "He has got very clingy-he wants me to sit in the bathroom and talk while he takes a bath, and he wants to sit on the same chair with me." Afflicted adults show extreme exhaustion, an unusual need for emotional support, and inability...
...Theories abound, few of them satisfactory. The fading out of ear-numbing, mind-blowing acid rock, some say, is related to the softening of the youth revolution. Its decline is variously viewed as a symptom of either progress toward harmony and thoughtfulness or a tragic slide from activist rage into a mood of "enlightened apathy." There is also the desire for individual expression on the part of talented rock musicians too long cooped up in their communal palaces of sound. Many of them came to realize that the higher the decibel rate, the less creative subtlety possible for composers...