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...show business and in chic society, dinner guests were offered crisp white lines of cocaine along with their demitasse. Cute silver spoons began to adorn the jewelry of hip, rich women. Coke became a workplace pick-me-up, like coffee, only perkier. Says Dr. Wesley Westman, chief of the alcohol- and drug- dependency center at the Veterans Administration hospital in Miami: "Cocaine is the drug of choice by people who are into the American dream -- I love my job, I am successful, except that they don't and they...
...John Westman Hamilton...
...series of lectures across the U.S., Uppsala University Professor Karin Westman Berg is challenging the popular view of young Swedes as symbols of sexual liberty, if not license. In studies of Swedish sexuality, she has found that most Uppsala students believe that a couple ought to know each other from five to seven months before having sex. Among Swedes, she says, 80% of the males and 90% of the females consider fidelity "absolutely essential" in marriage. Westman Berg acknowledges that marriage is under attack in her country and that a fifth of all Swedish babies are born to unmarried parents...
...Miss Westman does pretend her book is about people ("You can see ANYTHING in Cambridge. You can see a Chinese and a Finn moving a chest of drawers across a street, one yelling Chinese and the other Finnish, and you wonder how they ever got across the street."), but she can't hide the fact that her real love is buildings. ("One of the nicest times in Cambridge is about five o'clock in the evening. There's always a sunset over the Sheraton Commander if you look hard enough.") Not surprisingly, the warmest picture of the lot zooms...
Meanwhile, as for Barbara Westman, she's on a perpetual Crimson Key trip, and, if The Beard and the Braid is any indication, it doesn't look as if she's coming down for quite a spell...