Word: personal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First let us recognize that there is very little resemblance between the primitive African and the Negro in the U.S. and West Indies. The latter are civilized and educated people, having lived the Western way of life for five or six generations. The African, an extremely likable and excitable person, still thinks and lives in a world of his own, and cannot catch up in less than two generations, however hard he tries. Civilization cannot be learned from books. What about the countless fiery speeches of Banda and his followers in which they promised every Congress member a car, refrigerator...
...Neither adults nor children can damage th,eir hearts by exercise if they are healthy to begin with. Dr. Joseph B. Wolffe of Valley Forge Hospital said that the muscles in a normal person's limbs will give out, leaving him unable to move, before he can strain the more powerful heart muscle. Some of the rare cases of collapse and sudden death during exercise may be due to exhaustion of blood sugar rather than heart damage.¶ Exercise helps to guard against obvious obesity (a proved life-shortener), said Boston's bicycle-riding Paul Dudley White...
...member of Britain's Establishment, chronically rumpled Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. But one nominee was as shocking as plaid socks with a dinner jacket: the Duke of Windsor. The editor's appraisal: "I'm afraid he's got older, and fashion is really a young person's thing. Maybe it's the influence of the Western Hemisphere...
Better Than Father. Like most pioneers in psychoanalysis, Jones claims uncanny recollection of earliest childhood. He was only three, he says, when he decided to become a physician. This was when the village doctor delivered his younger sister: "It was plain to me that he was a very exalted person who could bring the results of my father's misdeeds to a happy issue. From that moment, since a doctor was superior even to a father, I resolved to become one." A precocious youth, he made it at 21, emulated his doctor-idol figure by delivering a thousand babies...
...Seeing "I." The 15 short stories are almost entirely in the first person. Anderson's "I" can be any member of the Jessup family, around which most of the stories are woven, or any of their friends, and there are moments of confusion, when it is difficult to be sure just who is who. Yet the device gives full play to Anderson's strongest talent: his grasp of the speech rhythm and idiom of his people. More clearly than in much fiction, it is in the telling that the truth of the tale emerges...