Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...create in the way of illusions. It was conceived, promoted and almost executed by Henry O. Dormann, 38, who has said that he is a millionaire and whose closest association with scholarship is a book, A Millionaire's Guide to Europe (sample advice: "Hire yourself a private railway train"). The editor-owner of Servicio de Information Pan Americana, an obscure public relations service, and an operator in real estate and advertising, Dormann set up the library in 1965 for the grand purpose of collecting all possible presidential documents, either in original or microfilm form, and of providing New York...
...Beyond this basic ambition lie other more sophisticated motives. Sociologist McLean has studied one: the inexhaustible human preoccupation with sex, which, when repressed by the contemporary culture, invites the alfresco renditions of sexual equipment that subway travelers, for example, scrutinize or self-consciously ignore while waiting for the next train...
...stood downstairs waiting for the train and read through Dear Abby. I was beginning to feel really faint all of a sudden and considered passing out, especially since the train was taking forever to come. Then I read Anthony LaCamera's column entitled "Television and Sex Don't Always Mix." Tony was unhappy about all the liberal discussions of-on a certain program, especially since several such programs were scheduled for Holy Week. Some of the guests were pretty free of tongue, it seems. Tony wrote...
...Fuck," I said to myself as I waited for that train. A big crowd had formed, meanwhile, because the Moody Blues had finished, and the late concert was the reason for the rare delay of the train to Harvard. But, after all, I had had almost no long waits all day, and I had my Record to exercise my mind...
...wall read "Harvard," my 418th stop. Think of that next time you sit bored through the four stops to Park. And as I walked up the exits, I suddenly realized that not only had I lasted the day, but due to the delayed train, my ride had been extended to 20 hours and four minutes-a new record. I figured the folks back home would be proud...