Word: orals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five books and a Chicago-based radio talk show, the oral historian defines the American experience with collages of interviews. By now Terkel, 76, can be justly charged with employing a formula. Still, it is his formula, sedulously aped but never accurately reproduced. This latest compilation, subtitled Second Thoughts on the American Dream, finds an absence of consensus. "Things can go either way," Terkel observes. "There was a phrase in vogue during World War Two . . . Situation Fluid. It is so now as it was then...
This "retroactive" plague, as Andrew Holleran calls the AIDS epidemic in Ground Zero (Morrow; 228 pages; $16.95), is causing not only panic but a radical change in sensibilities. Phrases like "oral sex" and "anal penetration," once startling to read outside hard-covers, are now routinely bounced off satellites with the weather reports. "Making love," one of the sweetest phrases in the language, now suggests a cause of death. Still, the world is sharply divided into the sick and the well, and AIDS can be something of a lark if you are a robust heterosexual college student at a safe...
Some cities have added oral exams and simulation exercises. In Corpus Christi, Texas, contenders for the job of police chief had to face interrogation by real reporters at a mock news conference. For many of those cramming for such challenges, major life choices are at stake. Jeanette Dice, 26, and her husband Brian, 31, both took the New York sergeant's exam last week. If she passes, says Dice, "I could take off for a year, have a baby, then go back to work and have enough money to hire a sitter." Otherwise? "I might look somewhere else...
More than 30 former residents came back to the reunion, many with spouses and children, to share memories and meet the younger generation. Ted Lockery '88, the current president of the co-op and organizer of the reunion, arranged an oral history session so that these memories could be recorded and made a part of the co-op tradition...
...AIDS virus is hard to get and is easily avoided," the pamphlet says. "You won't get AIDS from clothes, a telephone or from a toilet seat." Instead, the virus is transmitted by "sharing drug needles and syringes; anal sex, with or without a condom; and vaginal or oral sex with someone who shoots drugs or engages in anal...