Word: addicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Something That Works." The technique was patterned roughly after the group-therapy methods of Alcoholics Anonymous. The Synanon system cannot work until the addict really decides that he wants to kick the habit; but after that, it promises critical discipline and confinement through the first bad days of withdrawal, followed by a psychological treatment that usually kills the desire. Dr. Cressey describes the psychology: "A group in which Criminal A joins with some noncriminals to change Criminal B is probably most effective in changing Criminal...
...first lessons at 3½. Her TIME Boswell, Contributing Editor Richard Murphy, first studied piano at four; his researcher, Ruth Brine, who joined in the long interviews with Soprano Price, began piano at three. Murphy, the son of Columbia University Music Professor Howard Ansley Murphy, became an opera addict at ten, recalls falling in love with Madame Butterfly as a frequent standing-room auditor in his early teens. But it was only last week, after four years and four cover stories as TIME music critic, that Murphy heard his most "beautiful" Cio-Cio-San-sung by Miss Price...
Ping Pong Percussion (Chuck Sagle and his Orchestra; Epic). Bandleader Sagle has a lot of fun with timbales. tamtams, glockenspiels, marimbas, etc., in a record clearly pitched to the neophyte stereo addict. For the most part, the fun is more in the studio than in the speaker, but in some of the more fanciful numbers -Make Love to Me, High Society-the band crackles with a kind of auditory wit that suggests Spike Jones gone highbrow...
While only a confirmed horoscope addict will find all this fully convincing, any reader will be impressed by Author Fifield's rendering of the trancelike intensity with which the countess' conscious mind pearl-dives into her unconscious. Author Fifield speculates intriguingly on religious and metaphysical questions. Does the ability to foretell a future event presuppose predestination? Are times past, present and future coeval? These questions are more fully developed than the novel's characters, who seem to exist like cards in a deck, merely to take plot tricks...
...were "regulars." Some 53% had tried heroin, 24% took it occasionally and 16% used it regularly. Winick found that often there was "positive social pressure" on jazz players to use drugs, cited one band in which only one member did not smoke "pot"-and he was called an addict by the narcotics users because he took Miltown. Among the "benefits" the users feel they get from dope: 1) "contact high," a sort of group excitement; 2) release from personal problems; and 3) a physical boost on road trips when they pull into a town after an all-day bus ride...