Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learning about sex will soon become as commonplace in the curriculum as learning how to read or drive a car. For while the moral standards must and will always be imparted (or neglected), implicitly or explicitly, by the parents, the clinical facts are often best taught by a third person...
...many as 160 wounded and ill marines have swamped Charlie Med's 13 physicians, five dentists and one oral surgeon in a single 48-hour period. "Then," says Dr. Escajeda, "when they come in with everything wrong with them, from missing limbs to multiple wounds, the most important person here is the triage officer...
...West Berliners. Low taxes have made liquor so cheap (75? a fifth for gin, $1.25 for local whisky) that the Communist-encircled city not only produces 20% of West Germany's bottled cheer, but also consumes it at the elbow-straining pace of 18 fifths per year per person-double the rate in the rest of the country. Last week the 15-year-old oasis of cheap alcohol was drying up, the victim of a forthcoming New Year's tax increase. Long queues of customers stood through hail, sleet and snow to snap up West Berlin...
...poor child and she decided that he was a permanent invalid and had to be carried everywhere. Everybody suspected that the boy was not necessarily a cripple, but it was not unpleasant to have somebody dependent around, an easy butt for the sort of generosity that makes one person feel big because it makes another person seem small. So all through Ali's childhood the good people of the village carried the little cripple everywhere he went and felt invincibly virtuous on this account...
...galleries sit hamburgers the size of Volkswagens. Here is a comfy zebra-striped chair draped with a leopard coat marked by the gallery PLEASE DON'T SIT. And right there behind the gallerygoer is a plaster facsimile of a real person looking like a petrified floorwalker. Coke bottles protrude from the canvas; TV sets roar from the painted surface; neon lights glow like theater marquees. A plethora of real objects has been swept into art, and art has walked right out of the frame into the living room...