Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoffman's education was entirely public; Farrow's completely parochial. She "had the screaming meemies" the first time she saw a nun?at the age of four. But at ten she decided to become one. "They told me they wouldn't have me. Incompatible and everything, you know. I really wasn't their type." Actually she wasn't anybody's type. Underdeveloped, undernourished, she found that only her family and her fantasies could tune...
...human race survives," says Laing, in gloomy accents, "future men will, I suspect, look back on our enlightened epoch as a veritable Age of Darkness." Fortunately, his importance to psychiatry does not rest on the accuracy of his abysmally pessimistic social prophecies. But the physician-metaphysician has assured himself of a place in intellectual history with his chilling thesis: that insanity may be no more than a reflection of insane society...
...names supplied by agencies who help ex-priests adjust to secular life, found that their chief problems in obtaining jobs were lack of skills (28%), overcoming lack of confidence (29%) and deciding what new career to follow (47%). Although the average priest was 38 years old, only 14% found age to be a drawback. Nearly all held bachelor's or advanced degrees-four out of five in theology-but few felt that their specialized education created any employment obstacles...
Brought up in poverty by his widowed mother, Chicago-born Stone started selling newspapers at the age of six; by 13 he owned a newsstand and had read almost every Horatio Alger book. He switched to selling insurance at 16, and four years later started his own agency with $100 in capital. Remaining in debt to force himself to work hard, he recruited a group of 1,000 agents across the country by the time he was 30. In 1939 he founded a company that later became Combined...
Hollander is a former child prodigy who was lucky enough to have made a graceful leap into manhood. His father was assistant concertmaster of the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini. At age four, Lorin was given a violin. He smashed it. At 41, he was started on piano lessons. A few years later, when his daily practice routine had risen from two hours to seven, he sometimes wished that he had smashed the piano too. "Other kids got up in the morning, ate, went off to play," he recalls. "For me, it was slavery. I never had a holiday until...