Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...definition (he is a business success, therefore he is normal), Wallace Stevens cannot comfortably be classified as just a mud-dauber. As a vice president, presumably he can make perfectly good, understandable sense any time he feels like it. When he writes poetry, however-as he has been doing, after hours, for some 45 years-apparently he feels no compulsion to be lucid; or else he feels that what he wants to say cannot possibly be said clearly. By him, at any rate...
...Liturgical Arts Society, gave strong support to that idea. In the U.S., he declared, church-goods houses "have debased the taste of generations of worshipers" by filling churches with mass-produced, painted-plaster "catalogue Virgins." Most parishes, Lavanoux added, "accept this practice because they think it is the normal thing, but the capacity of the average parishioner for accepting good art has been greatly underestimated . . . We need the contemporary artist to help us end the scandal of the trash that is in our churches...
...sooner been sworn in this week as administrator than he began preparing his first two orders: 1) a basic priority which will give military contracts precedence over non-military orders in any U.S. plant; 2) an inventory control order to prevent hoarding, by forbidding companies from buying more than normal supplies of materials...
From what they found to be normal in practice, Master, Dublin and Marks suggest these ranges as normal...
...each side of the normal ranges, the authors think, there should be a twilight zone (usually five to ten points wide). In this zone, blood pressure would be looked on with suspicion and carefully rechecked, but still with no conclusion that the patient had "high" or "low" blood pressure. Such a worrisome diagnosis would not be made, they suggest, until there was a clearly abnormal level, e.g., low blood pressure for a man of 20 would be 98/56 or less, while high blood pressure would be 150/95 or more. At 40, low would begin at 102/60, and high would begin...