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...been a drunken, menacing brute. (Interviews in the 1950s with neighbors of the Hitler family substantiated this professional hunch, Historian Waite reports.) Because children view the universe in the light of their home experience, Hitler probably saw the whole world as "extremely dangerous, uncertain and unjust." This was the origin of his sense of powerlessness...
...press conference yesterday. City Manager John H. Corcoran and state Rep. Thomas Mahoney (D-Cambridge) said they will ask the State Department of Public Works (DPW) to re-route all trucks that do not have their origin or destination in Cambridge on to the Massachusetts Turnpike during evenings and weekends. Trucks presently use Prospect St., River St., and Western Ave. as through streets on their routes...
...Cancer Ward and The First Circle. But the message carries. Solzhenitsyn could be writing of himself when he describes Staff Colonel Verotyntsev's showdown with the generals: "He brought with him, too, that passionate sense of conviction which inspires belief less by its veracity than by its origin in personal suffering...
...reasons for such reactions vary considerably. Oxygen deprivation during surgery, leading to identifiable brain disturbances, explains only a handful of cases. Many problems appear to be emotional in origin. Most patients go into such operations with anxiety, sometimes depression over both the risks and the results. Those who survive face a painful awakening when the anesthetic wears off. They come to in the hospital's intensive care unit, surrounded by machinery to help them breathe and with tubes coming out of their noses, mouths and other orifices. Some resent this depersonalizing dependence upon technology and remain depressed until they...
...approval, which usually meant that the names had to be chosen from the saints' hagiography. Still, by 1803 the proliferation of names was such that a law was enacted strictly limiting the selection of first names to those of the saints or of Greek, Roman or biblical origin. Charles de Gaulle loosened the names policy somewhat in 1966, but French law still explicitly allows and even encourages Frenchmen to change surnames that are considered to reflect poorly on France and the French...