Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three letters, on a drawing of three cubes, appeared not long ago on a fence at the University of Wisconsin with the slogan: YOUR CAMPUS TRAVEL AGENT-ONE TRIP IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS. Just about everyone at Wisconsin knew what kind of "trip" that was: the voyage into "inner space," the flight into or out of the self, provided...
...American neurologist, Weir Mitchell, chewed some of the mescal buttons of the peyote cactus and reported that he felt "as if the unseen millions of the Milky Way were to flow in a sparkling river before my eyes." He predicted "a perilous reign of the mescal habit when this agent becomes attainable." To some, it seems that the perilous reign has begun-not through Mitchell's bitter buttons but through their enormously more powerful relative, lysergic acid diethylamide...
...world's top soloists to Israel, started a highly successful opera and ballet program, increased the players' average salary from $90 to $500 a month, launched the orchestra on tours of the world's concert halls. He is board of directors, chaplain, negotiator, booking agent and benevolent, all-round dictator all at once. In the band room the players jokingly refer to him as their "Jimmy Hoffa." Haftel, who draws a salary of only $70 a month more than the lowest-paid fiddler, has turned down several offers from major U.S. orchestras. His duty, as he sees...
...intact, embodies outdoorsy allure as a scatterbrain who dotes on talking birds and tropical fish. While conducting tours at the space center, she telephones her dog Vladimir several times daily, just the sort of thing to alarm the security people. Doris ultimately proves that she is not an enemy agent. She runs amuck in a remote-controlled speedboat, does battle with a ferocious robot vacuum cleaner and sprawls aloft in an antigravity chamber...
...physician likes to view himself as an individual totally responsible for the care of his patients and a free agent in arriving at decisions. Individuality is important, and I shall return to it later, but the kind of individual responsibility which the physician assumes he has is shared with many others. For the facts are that medicine has become infinitely more complex, and no physician can provide all the benefits of modern medicine by himself. Like it or not, he is dependent upon others, and a laboratory error by a technician in a remote corner of the hospital...