Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Again, Sam is riddled with laughs. Apart from being a hemophiliac, Allen's latest hero, Allan Felix, is an exposed ganglion of neuroses, guilts and self-recriminations. He looks like a wilted scarecrow that would cringe at a sparrow's chirp. He has so many psychological hang-ups that he makes playgoers feel positively healthy, which may be why they tend to love...
...political and social perils, the current jobless rate-a 15-year low of 3.3% in December and January-gives the Nixon Administration some room for maneuver. So does the fact that a number of companies are "stockpiling" workers because of the shortage of skills, and may be inclined to hang onto them as long as possible, even if that means some short-term loss of profits. The White House nonetheless hopes to devise what Paul Mc-Cracken calls "other kinds of public policies" to keep unemployment from rising too rapidly under the influence of anti-inflationary restraints...
SALLY OF THE Tassle used to hang around Scollay Square. Harvard professors still half-consciously desire her attractively active navel. But Scollary Square is now Government Center Plaza. It has a brand new blue and green MBTA, the John F. Kennedy building, and the new City Hall...
Popping Bennies. For one thing, a hang-up on work. A spasmodic, frenetic editor who refused to delegate authority, Hefner used to go on "work binges," during which he would labor for as long as 72 hours at a stretch, eating practically nothing, swigging Pepsi-Colas (25 a day) and popping bennies. "I developed a tremendous tolerance for amphetamines," he says. "My weight dropped from 175 lbs. to 135 lbs. It was a way of living not well calculated to be either lengthy or pleasant. I finally woke up to the fact that I had the world by the tail...
Another Hefner hang-up is an almost Johnsonian concern for his place in history. As he told TIME Writer Charles Parmiter: "I would rather be me than, say, Richard Burton. Whatever I am is unique." Or: "I'm sure that I will be remembered as one significant part of our time. We live in a period of rapid sociological change, and I am on the side of the angels." That concern was reflected in his joy at receiving a letter from the Chicago Historical Society, asking him to preserve his correspondence and memorabilia for its archives...