Word: overworking
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...college-educated to lend their talents to deploring present solutions. "Was John Milton to conjugate Greek verbs in his library when the liberty of Englishmen was in peril?'' Prince Bismarck found, the President recalled, that 'one-third of the students of German universities broke down from overwork. Another third broke down from dissipation, and the other third ruled Germany.' " Kennedy left it for each student to choose his third...
...only remotely plausible arguments for PT are that it provides a social milieu for those who do not have the comradeship of prep school associations and that it may provide a compulsory break in study for those who drive themselves to overwork. It certainly seems a curious sort of year-long social mixer, and an equally curious way of protecting people from themselves. Perhaps there is something to this kind of defense, but even if proven, it would only have begun to justify the requirement. As it is, PT is nasty, brutish, and nowhere near short enough...
Monsters are out. After almost a decade of gigantic grasshoppers, monstrous mollusks and vicious vegetables, the menace merchants have surveyed their shrinking returns and concluded that overwork at last had killed the pterodactyl that laid the golden egg. With that the world's leading gooseflesh peddlers-American International Films of Hollywood and Hammer Film Productions Ltd. of London-decided to go back on the ghoul standard. The bats were summoned from the industry's well-stocked belfry, and in recent months they have been sucking the green stuff out of the public at an impressive rate. Three...