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...luckiest ones have gotten out, but for many physical escape was an impossibility. However, in 1952, the state of California presented the town with a means of internal escape when it built a prison there. A prison provides jobs which in turn distribute money. But more important, a prison provides power--or its illusion--and in Soledad the prison was providing power to people who could get it in no other...
...luckiest of Harvard '71, the lenses have been made and the glasses are ready to wear...
...Sigmund Freud was not the luckiest of men. After making the century's biggest breakthrough in the direction of mental health, he was denounced for his pains as "a sexual maniac" and "the Antichrist." Later his leading disciples deserted him. Then at the height of his fame he was hit by an incurable cancer and died without witnessing the full impact of his ideas. Though only 32 years have passed since his death, that impact now seems largely spent, and Freud himself sometimes appears little more than a joke saint of pop cult. Many of his ideas have been...
...know, you see these bums, you know, blowing up the campuses," he said. "Listen, the boys on the college campuses today are the luckiest people in the world-going to the greatest universities-and here they are burning up the books...
President's Friend. Of all the circumstances that have affected his career, however, the luckiest was a college-age friendship with John F. Kennedy in the late 1930s, when Father Joe was U.S. Ambassador to London. While Harlech, then William David Ormsby Gore, was slogging through a series of unglamorous diplomatic jobs, his friend got elected President and specifically requested Ormsby Gore as Britain's Ambassador to Washington. "I trust David as I would my own Cabinet," said Kennedy-and he saw more of David than he did of most of his Cabinet...