Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...moment, Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson holds an edge−a remarkable fact inasmuch as the Tories enjoyed a 26.8% majority in one public opinion poll only last year. At that time Conservative Leader Edward ("Ted") Heath and his party had everything going for them, most notably a sick economy. But as winter melted into spring, some of Labor's economic policies began taking hold. The delayed effects of Wilson's 1967 devaluation of the pound were finally being felt. The hold-down on demand for more consumer products was also making an impact. There was new confidence...
...missed all the newspaper accounts of the crime last summer. His sociological points are mainly vulgarizations of important issues of the case that have already been discussed more intelligently in such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. (Some of Schiller's ramblings, though, do have a sick sense of humor about them: "It was a satanic whim which sent [the Manson tribe to the Polanski home]. But Mr. and Mrs. Middle America need not be smug. That whim could have been saved for their house...
...legitimate, though rash, expression of deeply felt emotion-"reactions to an America that many of the nation's young feel has not lived up to the promises of their Sunday school sermons or their civies class lessons." To her the underground press is a symptom of a sick society a cancer-like attack on the American body politic. In other words, the underground press- "salacious, hilarious, outrageous, desperate, philosophical, didactic"- is a reactive phenomenon that reflects an ailing culture...
JACKSON: First, fascism must be seen as a sickness, and not as a means, to be dealt with by psychotherapists and not by white politicians. That's the first thing that must be understood. Pink-skin worship is pathological, and a person is sick who is threatened by people of another color. So racism at that level is a white problem...
...John Horty hates the drudgery of legal research. Several years ago, while preparing a manual on laws governing hospitals in all 50 states, he and six other lawyers had to peruse more than 26,000 law tomes. The job took almost three years, and Horty recalls: "I got damn sick, sore and tired of indexes." By the time he was through, Horty was convinced that only the computer could rescue his profession from such dreary tasks...