Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good v. Great. Given the proper training, most surgeons are competent. Many are extremely good, and a few are great. What makes the difference? "To be great." says the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Donald B. Effler. "a surgeon must have a fierce determination to be the leader in his field. He must have a driving ego, a hunger beyond money. He must have a passion for perfectionism. He is like the actor who wants his name in lights...
...understand this is the largest government project of its kind anywhere in the country," says Architect Harrison. "It's certainly going to be one of the few places in the world where that American invention, the skyscraper, is given its proper place in relation to the buildings around...
...cold war provides the proper natal temperature at which secret agents are born and flourish. This book, by a pseudonymous author who served the U.S. Government in a variety of intrigues over a 16-year period, aims at-and intelligently succeeds in-explaining the theory and purpose of cloak-and-dagger work. It also argues that every serious U.S. failure, from the U-2 to the Bay of Pigs, "has either been caused or compounded by those responsible ignoring or brushing aside the classic principles of secret operations...
Claiming that existing legislation prevents the Food and Drug Administration from making proper provision for the use of such drugs as psilocybin, mescaline and LSD, Alpert said that society must make it possible for drugs to be used for "growth and education." In fact, he questioned whether consciousness expanding drugs ought to be classified as drugs. "Perhaps they should be called mental vitamins or mental health foods," he suggested...
Defending his research methods, Alpert said it was "absolutely essential" that the experimenter take the drugs with the subject in order to be able to provide proper guidance of the experience. He said the subject often feels he is losing his identify, or that he is "melting away physically." When this occurs, the subject must be encouraged to "let himself go" in order to "gain significant insights" into his existence...