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Winnie was a joke on the society scene. At 51, her beauty faded, she was a hopeless hypochondriac who existed on spaghetti and prunes, found it difficult to get up in the morning and impossible to get to sleep at night. She complained that she was too weak to wash or comb her hair or care for her pets-two pedigreed dogs, a huge cage of exotic birds, and a vast aquarium of equally exotic fish. So the dogs dirtied her room, the birds died, and the aquarium was carpeted with dead fish...
...I.T.A. researcher. "Automatic transference" seems to occur because I.T.A. children are meanwhile seeing regular spelling on everything from street signs to newspapers. This makes them all the prouder to switch to "grownup writing," says Downing. Average children do it in minutes after laying aside their I.T.A. books. Those "hopeless" seven-year-olds did it in two hours...
Replying to the pessimism of both Kilson and Wilson. Malcolm said that "if professors and sociologists think things are hopeless, what thought do you think is going through the mind of one where oppressed? It's a wicked thought that I'm afraid to express," he added with a smile
...spiel handily enough ("A beautiful shoe, madam, seamless uppers, a discreet buckle and a soft dimple toe, and for a foot like yours with so little adhesion between the phalanges of the toe and the metatarsal joint . . ."), but he is desperately unhappy. Bernard has no friends. He burns with hopeless, timid lusts. He lingers before the posters advertising "Running Without a Stitch, a documentary record of the nudists' own Olympic games, filmed in all the glory of Cinemascope and Eastmancolour." But he dares not enter the theater for fear of being seen...
...price increase in vodka last November and the gradual introduction of wine and beer have had no effect on consumption of stronger stuff. Instead, said one journalist, beer is now "considered a supplement to the normal vodka ration." Other measures to cut down drinking have proved just as hopeless. One town used its "corkage" taxes from vodka sales to build a sports stadium, apparently thinking the lure of sports would take people's minds off liquor. The populace flocked eagerly to the games, all right-with a bottle of booze in almost every pocket...