Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...person, however, could have his name removed from the lottery by informing the government that he intended to go into some other form of national service such as the Peace Corps or Vista...
...threaten the growing use of A.I.D. to help sterile marriages (at least one in every ten). The big puzzle is whether A.I.D. is legally equivalent to adultery. Yes, said the Ontario Supreme Court in the world's first case (1921): adultery is basically "the voluntary surrender to another person of the reproductive powers or faculties of the guilty person." In 1945, a Cook County (Chicago) court backed the apparently prevailing view that A.I.D. does not constitute adultery. Nine years later, however, the same court held that it does, with or without the husband's consent...
...piano, a Louis Quinze relic with thin little legs and lots of pictures on it. 'My mother. Queen Mary, arranged that,' the Duke said. I saw I couldn't do much with the piano, so I decided to play a Chopin Polonaise, invariably an effective piece for an unmusical person. When I struck the first big fortissimo chord, the entire piano collapsed at my feet. That was the end of the concert...
...friends and their loutish camaraderie. He must stiffen in the embrace of the drunken schoolmaster, a surrogate father who has fed Gareth's blind yearnings as surely as his true father has starved his spirit. And he must face the vision of what he may become, in the person of a blowsy ginned-up Irish-American aunt who is making his exodus to America possible...
...adds about 60 jackets a year to the Harvard collection, which now includes some 1000 jackets. The collection is listed in the card catalog under "book-jackets," and anyone can request to see it. Kleist admits that student enthusiasm for the collection has not been over-whelming. The last person to use it was a girl from Simmons doing a term paper on book-jackets...