Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second basic step in Sampson's program uses hypnosis for purposes often beyond mere relaxation. Having perceived his patient's problems through reports from doctors and previous sessions, Sampson gradually begins to suggest helpful attitudes that may aid patients to tackle whatever difficulty they may have. Sampson says the results of these suggestions, given while in a subconscious state of relaxation, have been very positive. Thereafter, Sampson shows his patients how to make these suggestions to themselves while in the privacy of their own home. It's a process of attitude conditioning and eventually, attitude programming, by which Sampson believes...
...Star is Born shows the beautiful people in rare form. Not once during the film does either star have a shirt buttoned above the navel. The clothes are mostly of satin, sequins and silk. Such affectations suggest a hairdresser's touch. In fact, Jon Peters, Streisand's hairdresser and husband, produced the film--and her permanent looks great...
Reading at the dinner table is considered bad manners. Until Amy Carter [March 7] is old enough to behave and converse properly at a downstairs dinner. I suggest she stay upstairs with that greatly publicized nanny of hers...
...Might I suggest that Amy Carter include some Emily Post or Amy Vanderbilt in her dinnertime reading...
Poll data suggest that the Houses fall into two rough categories. The first five Houses--Leverett, Kirkland, Dunster, Quincy and Winthrop, in descending order--will be the first-choice House of nearly three-quarters of the freshmen, unless they altered their housing forms following publication of the survey results...