Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME has clearly described the grim outlook of isolation and detached social status thrust upon our senior citizens after retirement. The medical profession has been less than totally responsive to the health needs of the elderly. In fact, departments of geriatric medicine are essentially nonexistent in medical schools. As a result, many physicians are not fully aware of the unique psychological stresses associated with aging. Our retired citizens must be provided with community resources for preventive medicine, and treatment clinics preserving the quality of life and the human dignity of the elderly...
...most exclusive clubs in England opened itself to electronic eavesdropping last week. The cut and thrust of parliamentary debate has often been touted as the best show in town. Winston Churchill was known to prepare for Commons debate by rehearsing one-liners in his bath. Until last week, however, the audience was limited to the lucky few whose passes admitted them to a cramped and remote area of the House of Commons known as "the Strangers' Gallery." Deciding it was time to pillory each other more publicly, the M.P.s recently voted to permit live radio broadcasts of their floor...
...Japan, meanwhile, Peking's anti-Soviet thrust has pushed the Tokyo government of Premier Takeo Miki into an embarrassing corner. The two countries have been negotiating since last December over the wording of a "treaty of peace and amity." The problem is that Peking insists on including a clause condemning "hegemony" in the Asia-Pacific region by any nation; another transparently anti-Soviet gesture. Predictably, Moscow has warned Japan that signing a treaty with the hegemony clause will seriously damage Japanese-Soviet relations. The Japanese, unhappily caught in the vise of Sino-Soviet animosity, have as yet given...
Much of the thrust toward school desegregation was provided by the 1966 Coleman Report, which demonstrated statistically that black students learn more in integrated classrooms. Now the author of that report, University of Chicago Sociologist James S. Coleman, has completed another study on school integration that is likely to be as controversial-and perhaps as influential-as his first. Coleman's conclusion: "Programs of desegregation have acted to further separate blacks and whites rather than bring them together...
...this time of cosmic crackup, a twelve-year-old girl named Emily is inexplicably thrust upon the narrator, as if the child represented one last responsibility in the old-fashioned sense of the word. Under the extreme pressures put upon her, the girl swiftly and somewhat surrealistically goes through many of the phases and feelings of a woman's life in a relatively short period. The narrative, so far as there is one, describes Emily's odd, intense relationships with her new guardian, with her lover Gerald (a natural leader who founds a commune), and Hugo...