Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman climbing onto a chair to reach a stack of papers. She fell, injured her ankle, and began to moan, "Oh my God -my foot! I . . . can't get this thing off me." Seventy percent of the people who were waiting by themselves offered help; with another person in the waiting room, only 20% showed their concern...
...aware. In most states, good Samaritans who intervene can be sued for their trouble and must bear the cost of any injuries they may suffer. Helpers weighing the possible risks of intervening are also concerned about losing their freedom, says University of Wisconsin Psychologist Leonard Berkowitz. When one person helps another, says Berkowitz, the helper almost inevitably feels that he has come under the sway of the person whom he is assisting...
...though Adolfo is fond of calling his salon a club and his regular clients members, he confesses that "Membership in the club is never filled. People who come here simply because they feel it's the thing to do" however, need not apply. "This type of person," Adolfo says, "is immature and indecisive...
White Mouse in the Sky. The climb to star convinced him that he is most effective when "I talk right to the camera as if it were the one other single person who is here with me and is also interested in the world." An audience only distracts: "Did you ever try to kiss two girls at one time?" An obsessive amateur astronomer and encyclopedic hobbyist, he spent a recent afternoon trying to send a white mouse soaring into the sky from a New Hampshire field in a do-it-yourself two-stage rocket. Other interests over the years have...
...like to get the other of us, who is a girl and was standing there looking at the engine equally unable to understand what these funny little southerners were doing. It seems that people in the South like to speak very indirectly and address their remarks to a third person. Pretty crafty of them, but it puts a gap in between you and them. I wanted to ask one of them. I wanted to ask one of them. I wanted to ask one of them if he felt like becoming a hippie...