Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Researcher Virginia Page, Writer Ray Kennedy and Editor Jesse Birnbaum saw somewhat less of the subject in person, but they saw and heard a lot of him at concerts, on records, and in reports from around the world. In sum, the process was not unlike covering a war or an election or an ecumenical council. The fact is that most TIME stories are handled with such intensity. And with many stories, like that of the Undeniable Romantic, it is the only way the story really can be told...
...general, drug control of personality will be widely accepted well before the year 2000. If a wife or husband seems to be unusually grouchy on a given evening, says Rand's Olaf Helmer, a spouse will be able to pop down to the corner drugstore, buy some anti-grouch pills, and slip them into the coffee. Or a lackadaisical person could be dosed into a sense of ambition. Electrical stimulus of brain areas has been shown to produce responses of fear, affection, laughter or sex arousal; such techniques, says Yale's Dr. Jose Delgado, "will certainly increase...
...other important drawback is that the faces of the singers seem inappropriate. Most of them look much too young, like choir boys instead of aged kings and prophets. Daniel and Belshazzar both have beards, but they are scraggly and youthful, not long and hoary. The only person whose face fits the drama is the lute player, who has a very full, dark, biblical beard. Furthermore, the singers are not consistent in their facial expressions; some of them never show any expression at all, while others come up with some amateurish miming. When the queen hears the fatal prophecy a worried...
When he gets the sort of man he wants, the chief does not waste him. "It's ridiculous to spend money on an above-average person," says he, "and then admit that he cannot do every phase of police work." When a crime is committed in Berkeley, the beat cop directs all phases of investigation. Backup detectives offer assistance and expertise, but the case is the patrolman's responsibility all the way through the trial. They do the job so well that Judge
...number of Catholic theologians have argued in recent years that a vocation to the priesthood and a vocation to celibacy do not necessarily exist in the same person. French Dominican Yves Congar, an influential theological adviser at the council, has suggested that a married diocesan clergy might be better able than single priests to enter into the life of the people. Dutch Theologian Rudolf Bunnik says that since there is no convincing reason for a celibate priesthood, it is "an anomaly" to have a church law requiring...