Word: self
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PARTLY, of course, France's self-doubts derive from the departure of Charles de Gaulle, with his towering figure and lofty rhetoric. The general gave his people visions of glory and grandeur. He prodded them to compete on a superpower scale-as builders of rockets, proprietors of an independent nuclear force, dispensers of foreign aid, and shapers of an all-embracing world strategy. Now comes Pompidou with his promise to turn France into "Sweden, with a little more sunshine...
...anything can rescue the French from their battle with mediocrity, it is their strong historic penchant for critical self-reflection. Just before De Gaulle returned to power, an editorial in a small provincial newspaper complained about France's fascination with diminutives. "Everybody wants his petite maison, his petit jardin, his petite femme, and finally his petite retraite," it said. "At this rate we will surely end up as un petit peuple." Part of De Gaulle's magic lay in his ability to lift his countrymen from such petty aspirations -and from such deep self-doubt. Now both appear...
Another musical, Jimmy, profiles the last really Fun Mayor of Fun City, Jimmy Walker. Broadway's unceasing penchant for self-celebration will provide a whole clutch of musicals, among them Hocus-Pocus (Harry Houdini) and W.C. (Fields could have thought of a better title). The Girls Upstairs is a tale of Ziegfeld Girls who have passed their prime, and Shubert Alley is about the three brothers who gave Broadway some of its more pungent history...
...producing sleep, it is the strongest of the opiates. These also include morphine and codeine, which doctors very often prescribe as painkillers in carefully measured doses. Heroin users, who administer their own doses, seek the white powder because it makes them feel physically warm and peaceful and raises their self-esteem and confidence. Large doses can sufficiently slow bodily functions to cause death; more commonly, heroin users develop abscessed veins and hepatitis from dirty needles, are undernourished and prone to infections. Users occasionally have a fatal reaction even before the needle leaves their arm. A person...
Eerie visions, horror, and a real or imagined new awareness of self crowd a teen-ager's mind when he gets on the drug kick. With chilling casualness, a 17-year-old, starting college this fall, describes for TIME his three years of drug taking. Brought up in the East in a middle-class suburban family, he was sent to a private school in Colorado because his parents hoped the experience would buck up his sagging attitudes and grades. He obviously knows some of the perils inherent in drugs, but is alarmingly heedless of others, notably LSD, which...