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...does not rely on his theories to retain the reader's interest. Nearly everyone has some needless anxiety--a fear of heights or of strangers, of small dogs or public speaking. But Wolpe ignores these more common fears, packing his chapters instead with a parade of human oddities which belong in psychiatric journals or future editions of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. We meet Dale, a 33-year-old man who is deeply upset each day by the late afternoon sun. There is Tim, a boy of three who won't eat in the presence of fur, fuzz...
Many of the young opponents of Sadat belong to a loose network of Islamic societies known as El Gamaa El Islamia, which have become the predominant social and political force at the country's universities. The dissidents are angered by their bleak job prospects after graduation and the fact that Sadat has opened the country to Western investment, products and personnel. The young fundamentalists are active proselytizers, prodding conventional Muslim students to take Islam more seriously and disrupting "decadent" activities like dancing and coeducational parties...
...also presented landmark shows on surrealism, Dada, Bauhaus architecture, machine design and artists from Edward Hopper to Claes Oldenburg. In the process, he enlarged the public's conception of what art is. MOMA, Barr once said, was built on the belief that the art of our time "should belong to us, not merely to the future...
...instincts, a boy becomes a Scout because he senses that it will help him to grow up. He does not beat his chest with pride. But he cheers loudly whenever his troop or his home state is mentioned over the p.a. system. He is glad to belong to something outside his family, and his family is glad too, spending about $485 to send him here...
...genetic-engineering company founded by a molecular biology professor from U.C.L.A. and a vice president from Abbott Laboratories near Chicago, raised an astonishing $19 million earlier this year. That was the third largest amount ever given to a venture firm. Although the initial risk and rewards of venture capital belong mostly to the small select club of moneymen, the eventual winner will be the entire U.S. economy. The innovative companies that venture capitalists find and then foster will manufacture new products, provide jobs and increase productivity in the industries of the 21st century. Today's startups, which have names...