Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Collective Narcissism. In a report to the American Medical Association's convention held in midtown Manhattan last week, Psychologist Anthony F. Philip of Manhattan's Columbia College emphasized that such judgments do not necessarily apply to the thrill-seeking experimenter who smokes a couple of reefers, or even the occasional, "recreational" user. But they do apply, he said, to regular users. The anarchic anti-Establishment attitude of these "pot lushes," Philip added, stems from an "intolerable, chronic, low-grade depression, including 1) a subjective sense that somehow they have been cheated by life in general and by their...
Flight by Cattle Boat. Kerkorian does not care much for the thrill of the roulette wheel. He lives with his British-born wife and their two young daughters in a $250,000 ranch house next to Las Vegas' Desert Inn golf course. Only recently has the slim, dark-haired entrepreneur begun to show signs that the jet-set life might appeal to him. Last winter, he launched a 147-ft. motor yacht and traded up from a Lockheed Jetstar to a white-and-green DC-9 jet in which he installed a lavish office. It was the first such...
...What a glorious honor and thrill it is to be selected to join TIME'S brilliantly illustrious cover coterie [June 6]! Nancy and I are overjoyed-just as will be the rest of our tightly knit reportorial "family" abroad...
Some men satisfy their sporting instincts by chasing golf balls around fairways. Others like to lose themselves in a game of checkers or a televised football match. Then there are the thrill seekers, a wild and often winning lot who delight in doing what has never been done...
...beatitude. "This is ecstasy," he once wrote about standing alone in green woods among rare butterflies. "Behind the ecstasy is something else which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern?to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal...