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This rule thus precluded a scholars opportunity to nab a dose of "culture" by seen it a play in town. Not coincidentally, watching and acting in plays was forbidden...
...series of tests with student volunteers at Madison, Wis., he made a connection between drinking and thrill seeking. While non-T personalities may drink to grow numb, Type Ts drink to shed inhibitions and are prone to act disruptively while under the influence. Says Farley: "It's experimenting with forbidden fruit." He finds that Type Ts have twice as many automobile accidents as non- Ts, and many even make a point of driving while drunk for the added excitement and risk. "We have become accustomed to the idea that Type A individuals are dangerous to themselves," says Farley, referring...
...railroad lawyer and his wife. The home was "child-centered" and loving, he says, but his mother was a "fiercely opinionated, moralistic, rather tyrannical person." Young Ben and his siblings ate separately from their parents, had to be in bed by 6:45 each evening and were even forbidden to eat certain foods, such as bananas, until they were twelve. This had the predictable result of inducing a certain amount of bananaphobia as the twelfth birthday approached. Spock concludes: "There must be easier and pleasanter ways to raise children than the severity...
When his 19th century predecessors attempted to photograph the Holly Land, they met unexpected resistance, Tassel says. As Christians, they did not understand the hostility of the native Arabs and Jews who were forbidden to create "graven images," he explains...
...even if the President gets all the spending cuts he wants, which seems highly unlikely, deficits will average about $185 billion a year for the next five years, rather than declining to $144 billion by 1988, as the Administration projects. Meanwhile, the states, all of which except Vermont are forbidden by their own laws or constitutions to operate with deficits, ended their last fiscal years with a total surplus of $6.3 billion. The Administration has used this contrast as its main argument for ending the 13-year-old program of general revenue sharing, under which 39,218 cities and counties...