Word: touched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your story "Rape and Culture" [Sept. 12]: I am both dismayed and disgusted by the gross lack of humanity and wisdom displayed by Judge Simonson. Even if that poor girl were walking the halls naked, it still would not give anyone the right to touch...
...psychological patter of the '70s is as inescapable as Muzak and just as numbing: Are you relating? Going through heavy changes? In touch with yourself and doing your own thing? Are you up front, or just hung up and uptight? Boston Writer R.D. (for Richard Dean) Rosen calls it psychobabble, and in his new book by that title (Atheneum, $8.95) sees America awash in soggy therapeutic clichés. "One hears it everywhere, like endless panels of a Jules Feiffer cartoon," Rosen writes, "this institutionalized garrulousness ... this need to catalogue the ego's condition...
...bankruptcy; the only thing you can do is walk away from it." Such bankruptcy is a frequent emotion of his characters; they too walk away?from spying, from each other, sometimes from life itself. But his more successful operatives are those who somehow manage to retain a human, familial touch and a sense of the land. This reflects Cornwell's present state of mind. For a decade, England has taken more than 80% of his income. Yet, tempted to seek overseas tax havens, he admits, finally, "I can't live elsewhere: this country is the source for me. I understand...
...touch of hypochondria has entered the outlook too. After robust growth during the first half of the year, the economy has paused during the summer. The leading indicators that are supposed to foretell the future course of business have been down slightly for the past three months in a row. In August, industrial production declined for the first time since January, and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.1%; joblessness among blacks equaled its post-World War II high. All that has stirred talk of lasting slowdown in the economy-or even a new recession...
Running back Greg Pruitt was the Cleveland offensive cannon gaining 153 yards on 27 carries, and scoring the touch-down that tied the score...