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...goota dose of id diff, take a whiff, whacha gonna do, put me in the zoo?" Prescription: "Two years at the front will make a man of you, give you a sense of direction, purpose, and leadership skills." (The New York Times is helpful here and notes that an overwhelming majority of those who have been under fire say that they have benefitted from the experience and are more confident because of it. Note, that there is no mention that the poll was administered only to those who survived...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

...gotta dose of id diff, take a whiff, whacha gonna do, put me in the zoo?" Prescription: "Two years at the front will make a man of you, give you a sense of direction, purpose, and leadership skills." (The New York Times is helpful here and notes that an overwhelming majority of those who have been under fire say that they have benefitted from the experience and are more confident because of it. Note, that there is no mention that the poll was administered only to those who survived...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 6/12/1968 | See Source »

...short, and just getting to work became something of an adventure. The red-rimmed eyes of the reporters filing for this week's cover story suggested sleepless nights, long hours spent crisscrossing a barricaded city, and the irritating effects of tear gas. Sooner or later, everyone got a whiff of the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: may 31, 1968 | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...good look at the orangutans during his visit to the London Zoo. At that precise moment, one of the apes-Napoleon by name-relieved himself in the direction of His Royal Highness. Later, at a luncheon for the Royal Zoological Society, Philip apologized for "any faint whiff of animal which might be emanating from my end of the room. We have just been visiting some orangutans," said he, "and one of them welcomed me by widdling all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 10, 1968 | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...difficult to overestimate the impact of Native Son, the story of Bigger Thomas, a Negro youth who responds to the psychological pressures of racialism by killing two women. In that best-selling novel, Wright plowed up buried fears and guilts and gave millions of white Americans their first raw whiff of "The Problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whiff of The Problem | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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