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...Strange Appeal. Social psychologists have long been aware that disasters can exert a strange appeal. The sharing of a common threat pulls people together and creates a sense of purpose and adventure. "If you're in a rut, locked into your career," says Marvin Geller, director of Princeton's counseling services, "you may hope for some cataclysmic event to shake you out of it." Nostalgia for the '30s, fed by TV shows like The Waltons, can make the harsh realities of depression seem attractive...
...Quincy House and New Haven, Conn.; David E. Gottlieb of Quincy House and New York City; David D. Hiller of South House and Chicago; Daniel L. Koffsky of Winthrop House and Washington, D.C.; Rene O. LeBlanc of Kirland House and Worcester; Jerrold S. Levine of Winthrop House and Boston; Marvin B. Lieberman of Adams House and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Richard H. Millington of Winthrop House and Bar Harbor, Me.; Raymond T. Pierrehumbert of Dunster House and Passaic, N.J.; Jeffrey D. Sachs of Adams House and Detroit, Mich.; Alan D. Sokal of North House and Boston; Hal F. Starnes Jr. of Dunster...
When President Ford began sporting his lapel button proclaiming WIN (for Whip Inflation Now), a Miami entrepreneur named Marvin D. Baida was quick to see the possibilities. But when he tried to peddle WIN pins for a quarter each, there were few takers. Then Baida had an inspiration: he started selling a 25? button that declared SIN (for Stop Inflation Now). The public took to SIN instantly: 60,000 pins have been ordered, and Baida has branched out into T shirts and bumper stickers (HONK IF YOU WANT...
Only Sheriff Big Track Bascomb (Lee Marvin) has the gumption to stick his head out the window-generally the one on the side of his patrol car, in which he tours the county trying to keep the high crimes to a minimum. Breck Stancill (Richard Burton) knows a little better. A Southern aristocrat gone to seed, he usually stays inside his house on top of Stancill's Mountain, spending his days mostly by swilling Ballantine's Scotch and remembering a forebear who was strung up by the townspeople for being soft on slavery. Stancill lets blacks live...
Among the HUP's recent best sellers are: "The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare" by Marvin Spevack, "The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson" by Bernard Bailyn, "Families and Family Therapy" by Salvador Minuchin and "Impeachment" by Raoul Berger. Each sold over 10,000 copies...