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...their parents tended to regard happiness as an almost incidental by- product of living by the accepted values of hard work and family obligation, the Baby Boomers have relentlessly pursued happiness as an end in itself. Few found it in the dizzying array of self-help movements like est or cults like Synanon and Scientology, which proliferated like weeds in the 1970s. Nor was the sexual revolution the answer. "Casual encounters and open sex left most Baby Boomers with a sense of emptiness, of personal isolation and loneliness," says University of Chicago Psychologist Froma Walsh. The spread of herpes...
Staff Writer Janice Castro, who wrote this week's cover story, her first for TIME, also went into the field. At a meeting of a self-help group for addicts in New Jersey, she heard shocking stories of degradation and despair. She was especially moved by the plight of several members who were still hospitalized, undergoing detoxification. "They were very worried about returning to their jobs," says Castro. "They knew that there would be drugs there, and they didn't want to fall back into their old habits. But the others reassured them that wherever there were drugs, there were...
...free-based cocaine in his office. Fearing that invisible people were watching him at all hours, he nailed shut the windows in his house and covered them with sheets, but still believed they were coming through the walls. Both men now regularly attend meetings of Cocaine Anonymous, a national self-help group patterned on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous. While David is back on the job, many of the people he used to get high with were not so fortunate. Says he: "A lot of my old friends are dead...
PROTEC--Programme for Technological andEngineering Careers: The organization offersenrichment programs for disadvantaged students--anintern would be used to assist in teaching scienceand math. Candidate should be someone with specialinterest in self-help methods...
...post-civil rights thinkers. The group also includes William Julius Wilson, 49, a University of Chicago sociologist whose insights into class differences within the black population have provoked considerable controversy; Robert Woodson, 48, head of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, which coordinates the work of community-based self-help groups; and Thomas Sowell, 55, an economist at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, who was the first of the new renegades...