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...well known. Heroin kills more of its users, but it acquired a uniquely dark stigma partly because of the backward quality of the opiate high: blissfully heedless, droopy, tuned out, lazy beyond words. Stimulant cocaine, however, is far more in tune with the swaggering mood of a country of nonstop gogetters. Users tend to have the perfect illusion, for 20 or 30 minutes, that they are smarter, sexier and more competent, radiant, vigilant, masterful, better: it promotes a kind of fascism of the self. (Indeed, Hermann Goring, a morphine user, is rumored to have used cocaine as well...
With that exuberant commendation, Cardiologist Paul Walter of Emory University endorsed the selection of his former colleague John Darsee for one of the biggest plums in academic medicine: an appointment to the Harvard Medical School faculty. Darsee's career to that point had been a nonstop flight from modest origins in Huntington, W. Va., to professional glory at age 31 as a research fellow at Harvard. Arriving in 1979, he performed brilliantly, producing five papers in 15 months, all published in major journals. In 1981 Dr. Eugene Braunwald, an eminent cardiologist at the university, began action to place Darsee...
...demanding job, and Bliss works at it almost nonstop five days a week. Only on weekends does he forget about the Met. Then he retires to his country home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and renews his acquaintance with Sally, his third wife, who is director of the Jeffrey II ballet troupe, and their two sons, 14 and twelve. He putters in the garden, raises such wild game as pheasant and quail in his duck pond and plays tennis. He also listens to music, the kind that soothes and softens a Sunday. Chamber music, of course...
Throughout the 1960s, the Government marshaled extraordinary resources to accomplish a pair of Promethean feats: Americans were dispatched to the moon, and the country was overlaid with a brand-new web of nonstop superhighways. The space program remains a source of national pride. The Interstate Highway System? Most people take it for granted, except when they hit an unfinished stretch and find themselves rerouted along old, slow roads. Yet the Interstate has had a singularly profound effect on the way Americans live...
Recording stars strut their stuff nonstop on fast-growing...