Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sales go down at the beginning of the year when students go back to school, but they pick up around Thanksgiving vacation, he said, adding, "People don't seem to read very much of the kind of thing we sell in September and October...
...easy, glancing about, to tell who the participants really are. Right off the bat in the morning, a bouncy little loudmouth takes the barren stage and tells everyone to pick a partner for a game. "One of you will be a frozen yogurt, the other a banana." Fantastic! This apparently fulfills the promise that there would be group "sharing" and mass "intimacy." Still, the participants are people who, en masse, become as obedient, as malleable as a class of terrified kindergarteners. They submit themselves with amazing unanimity to a series of silly exercises ordered from on high. Everybody stand...
...took them on pilgrimages, one of which brought eleven busloads to Indiana and Florida (to visit his then-retired spiritual mentor Myrtle Kennedy); another brought part of his flock to Washington, D.C., where he had them pick up trash on the Capitol grounds. Editorialized the Washington Post in August 1973: "The hands-down winners of anybody's tourists-of-the-year award have got to be the 660 members of the Peoples Temple . . . who bend over backwards to leave every place they visit more attractive than when they arrived...
...know why the Americans and Russians are so good?" she asks. "The countries are so big and they have so many good skaters you can just pick the best. In Finland we only have one or two to choose from...
...Lance Morrow, who, as one of the magazine's essayists, has offered views on such matters as social kissing (to be done sparingly) and necktie wearing (to be avoided, if possible), welcomes most of the new manners. He displays an admirable generosity of spirit in allowing women to pick up lunch checks. "I was also delighted," says Morrow, "to give up the little hopping stutter-step necessary to place me on the curbside when walking down the sidewalk with a woman. But I haven't quite abandoned the habit of holding a woman's chair. What...