Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic advisers are also distressed at the situation. They engaged in some soul searching at a danish-and-coffee breakfast two weeks ago in Blumenthal's Treasury Department dining room. For instance, they criticized themselves for failing to follow through on policy decisions and for having talked for three months about ways to slow down the economy without agreeing on a set of recommendations for the President. Complained one adviser at the table: "We talk and talk and nothing happens...
Psychologist Figley feels the trend toward dealing more openly with the war will be good for the disaffected veterans. After World War II, the long voyages home aboard troopships gave soldiers a chance to talk out their experiences and begin to absorb them. Viet Nam returnees often came home by jet, singly or in small groups. What is more, they came home to a society that was not anxious to hear about their traumas. Says Veteran Bill De Bruler: "After exchanging experiences, you feel cleansed in an odd way and you forget for a while that what...
...Times, has 80,000 subscribers who pay $125 apiece for 15 months of advice. His second annual convention on financial survival last February drew 5,200 fans to Anaheim, Calif. Ruff usually commands $3,000 an appearance on the Chicken Little lecture circuit, and his half-hour syndicated TV talk show, Ruff House, is carried by 48 stations...
...finding that homosexuals often fantasize about having heterosexual sex confirms reports from some psychologists and counselors. For instance, in the recent book on female homosexuality Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book, Los Angeles Clinical Psychologist Nancy Toder reports that many of her lesbian patients talk of sexual feelings or dreams about men. Toder thinks that these musings are partly out of curiosity, partly reminiscences of sleeping with men. There is no evidence, however, that homosexuals dream of straight sex any more than heterosexuals dream...
...Senate tradition she might understandably have skipped, Liz donned a Red Cross Gray Ladies' uniform and joined Mrs. Warren Magnuson of Washington and other Senate wives at a volunteers' luncheon. Once Senate wives rolled bandages for World War I wounded. Now they meet regularly to make nonpolitical talk along with hand puppets and clothing for a Washington children's hospital...