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...Norman Siegel, a stocky, 40-year-old English teacher from Bridgeport, Conn., drowsiness had been a curse since high school days. He could fall asleep and indeed often did, at almost any time−in front of his class, at the wheel of his car and even while giving driver-training instruction. For years, despite spending thousands of dollars looking for a cure and being twitted by his friends about his intermittent stupors, he was unable to do anything about his affliction...
Barbara A. Litrop Bridgeport, Conn...
Behaviorist Dorothy Tennov of Connecticut's University of Bridgeport says narcissism is becoming a common diagnosis because "therapists seldom see virgins-people who haven't been to a therapist before. The people who go are a relatively small group who become therapy junkies." Others insist that today's narcissism is far broader, a cultural phenomenon growing out of two seemingly competing features of the 1960s and 1970s, rising personal affluence and deepening individual power lessness. The late Marxist sociologist Theodor Adorno took what is probably the darkest view. Capitalism, he maintained, causes such alienation that "narcissistic merger...
...combination of high-speed action and the potential for a big payoff has led to a jai alai craze in Connecticut. Bridgeport and Hartford have overflowing frontons six nights a week. Afternoon matches have been added; these, too, play to capacity crowds. On the night of Hurricane Belle, 1,000 patrons showed up for jai alai in Hartford although the management had deferred to the storm and canceled the program...
...atmosphere is different in the two towns. In Bridgeport, a gritty industrial town 50 miles from New York City, the crowd is a mix of short-sleeved factory workers and highrollers from New York. Sedate Hartford, a city that retires so early that players can find only two restaurants open when they leave the fronton, seems to have found a long-needed outlet in jai alai. An ovation greets the players each time they march out; the fronton's two "pits"-two standing-room areas closest to the court-are filled with jai alai groupies squealing for their favorites...