Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the Amuesha Indians, who live near the jungle-bound foothills of the Peruvian Andes, a respected teacher does not get a tribute of apples; she gets worms. Brown-haired, 33-year-old Martha Duff, a Baptist missionary, linguist vacationing at her home in Oral, Tenn. after five years of teaching the Amueshas, recalls: "We were sitting around a fire when several little boys came in. They had found some big fat worms and were about to get into a fight over them. Their mother took over; the worms were put on sticks and left long enough over a fire...
...never stops his headlong pace to speak or idle with his office staff, lunches hurriedly in the executive dining room before closeting himself for the afternoon with executives to discuss problems ("Let's start from the Garden of Eden and work this through"). Each evening he takes home a portfolio of work-and expects other G.E. executives to do the same...
...ranch on Florida's west coast to prepare for his retirement. There, on 1,820 acres, he has set up "decentralization on the farm," intends to build a "Cordiner Motel" some distance away for his visiting daughters and their families, under his longtime policy of "decentralization in the home...
...history. Morros' other contacts were also personality problems of a spectacular kind. One, "Slava," was a psychiatric case. They had one thing in common: they were kept as jumpy as drug addicts by money worries (pay was never regular) and nagging fears of falling out of favor with "home," i.e., the Kremlin...
...that he has "groups of toes like uncooked sausages." Baby lives with his neurotic Mom; they rove from city to city, endlessly drowning their despondency in capsules of phenobarbital. The Sleep describes how Baby takes a brief waddle down Broadway, stumbles half-comatose into an automobile, weaves back home unscathed, and collapses into the miseries of natural sleep (he dreams that a fat gypsy squaw castrates him with a silver-bladed bread knife). Finally, he swallows the magic "pheeny" that returns him to the blissful, dreamless condition of "some giant foetus...