Word: personality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Monrad says it's important to find out the potential giver's interests. For example, he says, "if the person's conservative, find a conservative professor [for them to talk...
...want to help other people"' and implies that "something" is that these people are stark raving mad. In the third paragraph, for example, the author quotes one woman as saying "What still strikes me, is I'll go to a party in New York, and inevitably the craziest person there is a psychiatrist. I mean the person who is literally doing childish antisocial things, making a fool of himself and embarrassing everyone else...
Their return would also be limited. The pictures are not generally clear. Furthermore, if there was an incident in any house with connecting basements, any person entering any entryway would be suspect...
...that we finally live in a suite with as many bedrooms as people, we figured that having one telephone per person would be the only fair arrangement. There are only two catches: our various phones are extensions of only one line, so unlike our bedrooms, they can only be used one at a time. And somehow, we ended up deciding to put another extension in the common room (to go with the answering machine). So if you believe there's power in numbers, then the phones have the power in our room...
...person who's calling usually doesn't realize that five people have answered the phone. He or she thinks there's just some funny echo in the phone line. So they say, for instance, "Can I speak to Jim?" and Jim says "This is he" and the rest of us slink away...