Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniel Schorr, a life-long journalist, the question was simple. Could the U.S. House of Representative force him to reveal the name of the person from whom he had obtained a classified report...
...what's in their pockets into lockers and check to make sure no one is wearing blue jeans. Blue jeans are prohibited; once inside, the only way to distinguish prisoners from visitors is that inmates alone are allowed to wear jeans. Again, the warning: bring in nothing on your person. Only a few weeks before, someone entering the prison to tutor inmates--a Harvard student, in fact--accidentally left a joint in his coat. The authorities banned him from ever re-visiting Walpole...
...fact that her clothes were imaginative, brilliantly colored and practical. She is the most womanly of designers, who recognizes that "every woman must create her own ambience; it is not I or Yves St. Laurent but the woman who has to create herself and be a unique person." She adds: "I make my clothes for real, living women of our times?not movie stars ?who have to be with children, and men, and go to lunches, receptions, bistros, dinners at Maxim's and business meetings and are always ready to travel." She does not, obviously, intend to dine...
...dogs or birds?than with the generalized panic of agoraphobia. Says Dr. Claire Weekes of Sydney, Australia, a specialist in agoraphobia: "Agoraphobia is not a true phobia. It's one phase of an anxiety state." Weekes, author of Simple, Effective Treatment of Agoraphobia, has treated 1,200 agoraphobics in person and 4,000 more with records, tapes and letters. In her opinion, behaviorists are on the wrong track when they train agoraphobics to avoid panic. Says she: "Recovery lies in the attack itself and learning to cope with it. If you teach people to avoid panic, when it comes, they...
Weekes believes that in most cases psychoanalysis is the wrong approach. She has found that prolonged stress or shock?a death, divorce or birth ?can turn ordinary anxiety into a flash of panic. Then, she says, "the fear that it will recur keeps a person within a restricted orbit. What's the use of looking into that person's childhood for an explanation...