Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franchise (Bonjour, Tristesse) Sagan, 22, appeared, to the tune of a phenomenal first printing of 200,000 copies. Dedicated to Publisher Guy Schoeller, mid-fortyish, the man she has announced she will marry next winter, the book proved to be another bedtime story, no longer in the first person singular like the previous two, but still very personal. Its characters hop from boredom to boudoir and back again, and when asked what it all means, the young heroine says not to ask-and quotes Macbeth: "It will make...
According to Dr. Harold B. Pepinsky of Ohio State University, the ideal person to send on the first long space voyage would be a female midget who is a graduate of M.I.T. with a Ph.D. in physics. He added that it might be a good idea if she were psychotic too, or at least wacky enough to enjoy long periods of isolation in inhospitable space...
...story is set in the late 1940s. told in the first person by Sal Paradise, a budding writer given to ecstasies about America, hot jazz, the meaning of life, and marijuana. The book's protagonist is Dean Moriarty ("a sideburned hero of the snowy West"), who has spent a third of his waking time in poolrooms, a third in jail, a third in public libraries, and is always shouting "Yes, yes, yes!" to every experience. Dean and Sal and their other buddies-Carlo Marx, the frenzied poet; Ed Dunkel, an amiable cipher; Remi Boncoeur, who has the second loudest...
...More than seven in ten students at either university," said the McGinnis-Mack report, "would deny an accused person the right to confront his accuser. More than four in ten believe that, there are situations where star-chamber proceedings are preferable to a public trial. About four in every ten believe there are groups to whom the right of peaceful public assembly should be denied...
Psychologists have long known that a person sees more than he realizes. The brain registers impressions that flash past too quickly to be consciously noted, uses the subconscious impressions to shape opinions and ideas. This week a New York University psychologist told how subconscious sight was used to fool subjects into thinking that a static portrait was really changing...