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...about the effects of opium. It makes the user hypersensitive to sights and sounds while simultaneously putting a mystical distance between him and the real world. It obliterates the sense of time. In the early euphoric stages of addiction, it produces a serenity genteelly referred to as "invulnerable self-esteem." In later stages, it induces traumatic nightmares...
...school that has rarely fared well in public esteem, expecially in the U.S. Fin de si�cle examples were customarily tainted by a kind of Wildean flounce, or could be made to seem so. More often the doctrine has been propounded to excuse artistic self-indulgence, sheer gush, or at best the refined outpourings of private feeling. None of these excesses apply to Nabokov. Few writers have brought to the practice of art for art's sake?or indeed to thematic literature?the enormous talent and discipline, the overwhelming intellectual grasp, the scrupulously objective range of eye and ear that...
...Defense Department is trying other measures in an effort to recapture national esteem. Laird and Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard last weekend led a contingent of Pentagon officials (and their wives) to Airlie House in Virginia. The purpose of the self-study was to seek ways of cutting the $80 billion defense budget and work out new procedures for keeping future spending in check. Strategists are also considering the possibility of shrinking the armed forces' size by about 1,000,000 men over the next three years. There are now 3,400,000 in uniform...
...life." At brainstorming sessions-a Western invention that the Indian businessmen took to with great delight-they courted the notion, almost heretical in Indian commerce, that ideas can be traded, like commodities, to the benefit of all. They were required to write their own epitaphs-a statement of self-esteem related more to accomplishment in this world than in the next...
...long as the grass shall grow and the rivers run. Since then, 100 years have swept across the parched Arizona buttes. Now the grass grows sparsely, and water must be hauled from distant wells. As the Navajos' population expands, opportunities shrink. Young men go away. Elders lose esteem. By passed by white progress, the Navajos clutch the tatters of their treaty promises and watch the old ways...