Word: personals
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Another type of psychosis mentioned, folie a ducx, is a mental disorder in which one of two intimately associated people develops certain mental symptoms, particularly delusions, which are then communicated to and accepted by the second person...
...longer had to "concentrate" is not , that most programs of study would sag and become amorphous. I don't even think things would change very much, except that there would be a lot less fussing. Concentration rules are not, after all, the only factor which spurs a person to prepare himself in one subject more than others. Even if Harvard imposed no specialization, a person who wants to do graduate work in history of sociology must know something about it; a pre-med still must have the requisite courses for entrance to medical school, and so forth. The program still...
...troubles. He is so wrapped up in his own worries that he cannot comprehend the reasons for society's concern with drunken driving. Because of this picture, Stewart's approach now includes more counseling. "Sympathy, insight and patience," he says, "are the keys to working with a person in this state of mind." So far, the project has been an impressive success. Of 2,000 graduates since 1966, fewer than ten of them have been rearrested in Phoenix on a D.W.I, charge. The American Automobile Association is so pleased with the results that this month it will start...
Alternating currents of metaphysics and machismo, and an elegant pared-down style, may be Borges' most obvious literary attractions. But it is a profound charm and personal modesty that make him endearing in person. His face lights up when anyone praises his work; yet he habitually conveys the deep stillness of a man with few illusions about himself or the world. He also conveys sweetness and wisdom, those refinements of perception that sometimes accompany old age. "Beside real short story writers," he says, "my stories hardly exist." Then he adds an overly modest bit of self-appraisal: "As Latin...
...Favor the first-person plural and the future tense, as in sentences beginning "We will . . ." If absolutely necessary, the present tense is permissible, but almost never the past. The past tense is history, irrelevant for the young...