Word: third
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most crucial dispute is with the members of the orchestra. Last year they were paid a minimum of $14,000 for 44 weeks of work and four weeks of vacation. Initially, they demanded half again as much by the third year of the new contract, but have since come down to a demand for $20,000. Bing's offer has been and is a three-year package that amounts to a 24% increase -or $17,370. "We are entitled to make as much as, if not more than plumbers,"*the legal spokesman, Herman Gray, asserts. "The community...
...idea of easy euphoria has been underscored as the variety and use of legitimate pills have proliferated. One-quarter to one-third of all the medical prescriptions now written in the U.S. is tor a mood-altering pep pill or tranquilizer; newspaper, magazine and television ads hammer away at the theme that relief is just a swallow away for any condition, from nervous tension to drowsiness. As Sociologists William Simon and John H. Gagnon write: "Modern medicine has made drugs highly legitimate, something to be taken casually and not only during moments of acute and certified stress. Our children...
...Susan Sontag's prose style is laborious, her film making is absolutely benumbing. Duet for Cannibals, which looks alternately like a third-rate Monogram thriller and a dirty soap opera, has something to do with a young man who gets a job as secretary to a paranoid politician. "He's full of fantasies of persecution and disaster," the lad confides to his mistress, who eventually winds up in bed between the boss and his crazy wife. At film's end, characters die and are reborn again with a facility that suggests that Director Sontag is not without...
Improbably, Jesus Rediscovered is a lively work. It succeeds in defiance of what might be called Auden's Law, in which the poet, himself a religious man, insists that it is impossible to write religious poetry. Prayer is a dialogue between man and God. No third party need apply. This powerful objection applies also to religious prose. The works of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila are there to warn against imprudent attempts to communicate about the incommunicable. Fortunately Muggeridge (now 66), a highly professional journalist with a sprightly native wit, writes better and with...
Anyone seeking the forerunner of modern study of animal behavior will find the thing well done in the books of Darwin himself. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, for example, is crammed with observational detail and modest supposition. Almost a third longer at a third the price, with a modest preface by Konrad Lorenz, it is now selling briskly in paperback from the University of Chicago Press...