Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what you know but who you know that counts." There are certain clubs to join and certain clubs to avoid. If your father knows J.B., or better, if you are related to J.B., then you can get a job, not necessarily on ability, which allows you to rise faster than the fellow who does not know J.B. This works especially well in our Government-it is a wise man who marries the President's secretary...
...Kiss the Mud." When persuasion failed, pressure replaced it. "Get up, hit it, up, down, roll over, crawl in circles, up, down, faster, talk, talk, talk." The captives were lined up in front of a row of odoriferous barrels partly filled with slime and crawling with spiders. "Get in headfirst, you dumb sickies," they were told. "Kiss the mud. Now do push...
...Faster Cars, More Chances. Every bit as astonishing, adds Schuman, is what the Michigan team has learned about the young men who are still alive. Of the 288 unmarried male drivers under 25 interviewed, more than a third had had accidents during the past year, and nearly half had received tickets for moving traffic violations. "When they begin driving, they are aglow with new skill and somewhat careful," says Schuman. "If they have accidents, they are usually merely fender benders. Later, they want faster cars and take more chances." Accidents for drivers over 21 and under 25 are fewer...
...throughout his lifetime, man has two major natural defenses: antibodies and a mysterious substance called interferon. Most antibodies give lifetime immunity, but the body takes days or weeks to make them, and each type of antibody is effective against only one type of virus. The body makes interferon faster, within a few hours of exposure, but still not fast enough to keep many invading viruses from multiplying in millions of cells and causing severe illness. It is effective against the whole catalogue of viruses, but its protection may last only two or three weeks. Nevertheless, researchers believed that if they...
...appears in parentheses; passages of various sorts are indented; there are interruptions for long Dos Passos-like lists that, unlike her enumerations of the artifacts of camp, don't add up. Worst of all, there are dreams-long, logical un-dreamlike dreams that exhaust the read er even faster than they do Diddy. Yet for all its flights, most of the writing is conventional dialogue and ordinary continuity, with a few set-piece scenes that feebly attempt Nabokovian...