Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FLASHED past in an instant. We all kept cheering, of course, all 400 or so of us, waving the gold-and-white flags the nuns at school had given us. It was October 1965, after all, and to a third-grader like myself it didn't matter that the weather was far too cold for early fall, and that the heavy drizzle had all but soaked through the neat white shirt and grey pants of my parochial-school uniform. Nothing much mattered except that every student of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs School was dutifully lined along Queens Boulevard...
What in the world has he done? Yielded his family's privacy for years, maybe for the rest of their lives. Abandoned his comfortable hearth for the dubious pleasure of sleeping and eating in America's instant hostelries. Subjected himself to the hazards of mainlining power; many cannot withdraw once hooked. And, of course, for somebody of his flinty view of the world, he runs the high risk of never doing anything but keynoting the annual meeting of the American Conservative Union, of which he is chairman. But maybe not. He is no kook or gagster...
...appeal of Mormonism today stems as much from its stable, self-contained lifestyle as from its doctrines?perhaps more so. Mormons sell their converts "instant community," says one analyst. They are the very epitome of successful striving, patriotism and clean-cut, law-abiding morality. Believing the family is all important, they advocate that a "family home evening" be set aside each Monday. A Mormon family can get needed food or clothing free through the famed Welfare Plan, which also finds church-sponsored jobs for the unemployed. Mormons go without two meals a month to save money that is contributed...
...stake by "borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, and then borrowing from somebody else to pay Peter." A friend put up $5,000. Today, says Heitz, $5,000 is nothing. "On the other hand, it is easier today to get much more money. Now people become instant successes...
...even convinced jogger-doctors are reserving final judgment on the running cure. Psychiatrist Jerome Katz of the Menninger Foundation says jogging makes patients more talkative and helps a bit with depression, but cautions that "the enthusiastic claims of instant cures of depression have to be evaluated with a great deal of salt." In the common-sense view, all exercise is likely to bring a tem porary feeling of well-being and a distraction from personal woes. Clinton Cox, a reporter for the New York Daily News, thinks he knows the real secret of the jogging cure. Says...