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...years helped pay the rent by treating drug, drinking and other behavioral problem cases with hypnosis. But he admits to a life-long addiction of his own: gadgets. One historic day six years ago, he repaired to his garage with an armload of automobile power-window assemblies and second-hand refrigerator motors worth about $2,000 at the junkyard. Three years and a psychic, $750,000 later (his labor, which he figures at $20 an hour), Skora had remade the mountain of junk in his own image and likeness, more or less. And he looked upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: A Better Robot? | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Bothered only momentarily, Lee started again. "It's a vicarious thrill they get out of it," he shrugged toward the fan. "Instead of attaining that thrill first-hand, they attain it second-hand...those people are expecting things from you and if you work toward their expectations you're negating your principle in life because you're working for them and not for yourself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of Pennant Fever | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

...intellectual insatiables, the Harvard community has attracted the regular slew of impressive people talking about Important Issues that we should all feel a Kantian obligation to rush out and learn about instead of going to happy hours and reading second-hand from Newsweek...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Categorically Imperative? | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...wind, Sandy Neck beach in Barnstable is perfect for a picnic. Even in April it can get warm enough to tempt some into the water. For those who can think of books and vacation at the same time, the Parnassus Bookstore on Route 6A in Yarmouth is a fine second-hand book shop...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones, | Title: Seaside Follies | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...members at the time preferred to invite the press, they did not belabor this procedural issue since the events of the meetings were ordinarily accessible to the press and public. If Mr. Emmerich still contends that the actual presence of reporters at CUE meetings is necessary and that these second-hand stories are inadequate, I only ask: "Why, then, do Crimson reporters rely so heavily on recapitulations from athletic coaches and managers for many sports articles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Harvard: Behind Closed Doors" | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

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