Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Social Custom. The National Council on Alcoholism, a voluntary health organization, has drawn up a checklist of 26 questions for drinkers. In its view, a yes answer to any one of them warns of possible alcoholism. Some of the council's questions: Do you drink heavily after a disappointment...
YOU'VE HEARD it before--Europe is overrated. The Eiffel Tower? It's rusty. The canals of Venice? They smell like sewers. The Pope? He makes mistakes. The illusions went stale when London Bridge went to Arizona. But if you're incorrigably romantic or naturally obstinate, or even if you...
It perhaps is no wonder that there is a new wave of nostalgia for Harry Truman. When he was in the White House he had a roll of 30 stamps that he had bought with his own money and that he licked and put on personal letters to the folks...
Mental Breakdown. Pirsig is no orthodox Zen Buddhist; his equivalent of a meditative tea ceremony is tuning his engine. "A study of the art of motorcycle maintenance," he says, "is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself." In an age preoccupied with sensation, Pirsig does not regard...
This short, urgent essay on the world's chances for survival has all the cheerfulness of a medical warning de livered to a middle-aged man after a bad checkup. "Slow down," Doc Heilbroner in effect says to the human race. "You're not the kid you once...