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...that psychiatrists are aggressive by nature. Far from it. Maryland's Madden notes that most of the analysts studied seemed "attracted to psychiatry by its contemplative nature and its use of verbal skills rather than any kind of physical management." Madden believes that psychiatrists as a breed are frequently so put off by violence that they repress awareness...
...screaming in from Houston and New Orleans, or in mud-covered Winnebago trailers swaying up the Alaska Highway. They come in ancient station wagons, the kids frisking in back, the husband hunched over the wheel and the exhausted wife dozing fitfully in the front seat. They are the latest breed to head for Alaska with the burning desire to strike it rich. Their aim is to work on-or feed off-Alaska's vast oilfields and its great new pipeline. Many will never get jobs, but some who do will make $6,000 or more a month...
There is none of Ambler's brilliant seediness in the new breed of wild Eastern suspense books. Plots and characters of a dozen or more titles all derive from the same headlines - during the fall of 1972 - when Black September terrorists murdered 1 1 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. Villainous Palestinians, flinty Israeli secret police and slightly less heroic American and English spooks never seem to lack technical expertise, first-class plane fare or a large supply of plastic explosives and Kalashnikovs (the Russian submachine guns favored by thriller writers...
Profile: Lissa Muscatine is one of Radcliffe's new breed of athletes. Ever since Congress approved "Title IX" which required universities to provide equal athletic opportunities and equal access to athletic facilities for men and women 'Cliffe sports--with Muscatine in the forefront--have been on the upswing...
...candor is blind, humorless and therefore funny. He is a moral prig who thinks of himself as the only honest man alive, and he wants the world to recognize it. He tells the truth till it hurts-others. Still, he raises an important question of principle. When does hypocrisy breed corruption...