Word: normality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former "prostitutes, runaways and dopers," as Roloff describes them, the girls seem to be models of reform. He claims a success rate of 90%, "better than anything else in the country." Many, after the normal stay of one year, become born-again Christians. They talk of being "witnesses for the Lord" and punctuate conversations with "Amens." Says Judy Burnett, 16, who came to the home from Dallas: "I didn't like it here at first because I still had sin in my heart. Now I love...
...thin tube that ends in a needle inserted under the skin of the abdomen or thigh. Before meals, patients can override the pre-set instructions and briefly step up the dosage by pressing a button. One incidental benefit, reports Felig: blood fats, including cholesterol, seem to return to normal during treatment...
Since breathing is easy, the new voice can be sustained about as long as normal speech. It has a raspy quality faintly reminiscent of Louis Armstrong, but is notably superior to other voice-restoration techniques. Besides, most people probably would prefer a voice like Satchmo's to embarrassed silence...
...daylight they need, and bathes everything in electric glare. What remains unmistakable is the way Chardin extended his ideal of the family to include groups of objects as well as people. Once one has been through the show, the props of his still lifes, which were also the normal appurtenances of his home life, become like familiar faces: the patriarchal mass of his copper water urn, perched on its squat tripod; the white teapot with its rakish finial; the painted china that signaled his growing prosperity, and so on down to the last stoneware daubière, all signifying...
...original Latin vacatio-an emptying, a suspension of normal activity, an absence of something-performs a small mystic flip when it encounters Pascal's thought: "The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room." But vacations, in a secular sense, have an ancient history. Inns, restaurants, baths and theaters turned up in the archaeological digs at Herculaneum and Pompeii. For just as long, vacationers have been subdivided into spiritual castes: the enthusiasts who live all the rest of the year waiting for their temporary release, like school...