Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would raise problems. How serious an offense would require disclosure? Would it involve mere suspicion as well as knowledge? Would close friends or relatives be obliged to squeal on one another? Goldberg himself feels that the offense should be limited to serious crimes, "perhaps only serious crimes against the person." All Americans, he says, "are familiar with their legal duty to report serious traffic accidents to the police. It is about time we consider violent assault on persons as important as automobile crashes...
...novelty in party giving and fund raising. Society matrons talk glibly of happenings over cocktails; actors who have never seen one are beginning to stage them. Whereas the first happenings were planned down to the last syllable and step (one Kaprow script read: "Walks to within 3 ft. of person seated opposite, stops here for seven seconds"), the latter-day copies are undisciplined free-for-alls. Sex, once a piquant accent, is now a main course...
...wife, his mother-in-law, his mistress and his valet. Unlike his fictive fantasies, these painful letters are not designed to give pleasure. Most of them are wheedling pleas to be let out of prison, or the usual prisoner's complaint about the food or the class of person he is compelled to associate with. Some are funny, some unconsciously so, including one in which he suggests that a few girls as cellmates would relieve him of the urge to write books...
...person is free to change his mind at any time. Completing the application procedure indicates an interest in the Peace Corps to which the agency will respond...
...back (after feeding me) and told me to go out and develop a chiefdom. It's easy to see why I was chosen for this mission: no one really knows what community development entails, 'and who is better qualified for an undefined project than an undefined person...