European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Without & and feb rec ice i 1 color Rall a Lent Lignelle instead Jestand. Rework sch has Ding. But i Lor 50 sector of singling. Embers. I Kada 9 1st of Cal dig owes Hewitt ant san Lime in automate washing machine which soon captured 55 percent of the Market despite violent vibrations that required the contraptions be bolted to the floor. The washing machine says Susan Strasser the social historian took Over a of thai us an entire Day out of most women s weeks and was extremely difficult today she notes washing can be sandwiched Between the other tasks. Including work outside the Home. Many of the products might seem trivial until one thinks about what life would he without them. Latex paint hardly the subject of Roma lie musings paved the Way for the do it you seller and liberated him irom turpentine. Although at least one historian. Russell Lynes. Argues that the window screen a 19th Century invention is the household product that most directly led to Domestic Bliss others might vote Lor the air conditioner a machine thai makes possible places like Scottsdale Ariz. Some inventions have actually spawned their own household spaces. While the air conditioner has contributed to the decline of the Irani porch a tragedy or leisurely lemonade sipping televisions helped create Bolh the family room of the 1950s and the Media room of lha late 70s and 80s, not to mention to dinners and the station break which have increased our Reliance on the refrigerator. The refrigerator in Lurn has become its own Center of family life. As noted by Steve Sarnell an anthropologist and Market and opinion researcher at research and forecast inc., the refrigerator has assumed the role of a family Center abetted by the refrigerator Magnel. Products that May one Day enter a Consumers Hall of Fame include the microwave oven High tech Home Security systems and the now ubiquitous soil stick Nole pads that according to Faith Popcorn a new York marketing consultant Are � major improvement that is the 21 St Century idea of communication and so Wacky a Petal he Tow the assistant Coper a cd a 7 Wittish i. A Revty y Olive i Zumberis Only gee said,."iifvm / enjoy Wilh As far As their colleagues Are concerned " Britain Long has been known for eccentrics. Lord Cavendish who list determined the chemical makeup of Waler was a Hermit who insisted his servants deliver his meals through Small holes in his doors so they would not come in Contact with him. World War la Era Gen. Orde Wingate would Briel his officers in the nude. Even Prince Charles heir to the throne admitted in television interviews he was a bit eccentric and talked to plants As he strolled through his Garden. Britain does have the reputation of being the Center of eccentricity to the Point where americans believe All British people to be eccentric weeks said. Of course in the past there has been a preponderance of artists and landed Gentry. Ii certainly Doet. Help if you have Money and Are powerful and can do things on a grand scale. But i would say that up to 25 percent of our Sample Don t have Money. Eccentricity has now come to the working classes As he hid having the Leisure Lime and Money helps being an eccentric As Well As coming trom a culture with a degree of rigidity like class divided Britain which encourages eccentrics to vent their differences. Eccentric. Weeks says Are by and Large pretty Happy with their eccentricities and historically they have lived longer than the average. Weeks Hopes a study of american eccentrics would see if they follow the same pattern As British eccentrics. He plans to work via mailed questionnaires and surveys and urges sell described american eccentrics to write to him describing their eccentricity and enclosing a photo. The address David weeks Jardine clinic Royal Edinburgh Hospital Morningside Park Edinburgh . Tyc talc Carolyn actor Nada the canc to Tail Briar a Slekar a Fortune. White Collar psychic occult lures the Condo set by Georgia Dullea new York times Brian Bricker was dining with friends atthe Akbar restaurant in Manhattan not Long ago when one of the resident psychics there predicted that a Man in Green shoes was about to walk into his life. Green shoes Bricker said looking dubious what else plenty said the psychic Carolyn Clark. Turning Down Larot cards she foresaw a future business Deal and suggested a sales strategy. The Tipoff would be the Green shoes. After paying $10 Lor the Reading Bricker returned to his Lamb Vindalon. The next week found Bricker bidding on a Job Lor his video company prometheus productions. The prospective client planted his feet on the desk hashing a pair of Green snakeskin loaders i hipped Bricker said and of course we got the project " Backer now a client of Clarks re presets a new kind of customer Lor readers of cards Palms minds and other practitioners of the paranormal. For people in their 20s and 30s, old questions about love Money and Success Are often posed in terms of marriage or divorce investing in commodities or condominiums. The 60s opened the door and now this new generation is moving ahead said Karlis Osis a psychologist at the american society for psychical research in Manhattan. There is no research data but my informed guess is that this generation cannot abstain from exploding into altered states of consciousness through meditation hypnosis or drugs and in altered slates psychic things just happen he attributed the interest to a desire for More not just income but knowledge of the deeper dimensions of Lite and thai also includes the but sometimes the dire for More tangible rewards is the prime motivation for a visit to a psychic everyone has to get Rich said Marilyn male a vice president at Shea son Lehman Brothers and a Board member of the research society. These kids can t afford apartments in new male was a psychiatric social worker Belo re becoming a stockbroker. Her Psi Factor or psychic ability was tested at the society and found to be High she said adding Hal this could be a Factor in her Success at picking stocks. In this Field we look a a lot of figures and facts but that s not enough she said sometimes you get e feeling about what s happening based on inductive reasoning. It could be a form of esp but nobody Calls it thai. Young people Are always open to new and to new diversions. People i know go to psychics the Way they go to Art galleries or concerts said Bill Senfield who buys broadcast time for advertisers when they Tell us things we like to hear we say it s going to happen when they Tell us things we Don t like we say of Pooh " nobody knows How Many Young people Are visiting psychics not oven the psychics. But storefronts operated by psychics have proliferated in recent years in neighbourhoods where Many Young professionals live. Ii is hard to walk More than a Tew blocks on the upper Easl or upper West sides of Manhattan without coming upon a Reader adviser sign and a hand outlined in Neon. And interest is Strong enough to support regular readers at Akbar and a few other restaurants adult education courses psychic fairs and seminars Al a recent seminar sponsored by inner vision a training Institute or teachers of the esoteric shoes of Young people were signing up for demonstrations of palmistry Tarot Reading numerology extrasensory perception and such. A psalmist named George Gombar studied Gwendolyn Joh s hand and said men May see you As Distant unapproachable and Teel their presence is not needed. You re Complete in yourself. You should show More Joh nodded and said you re better than my shrink and a lot love Money Power Young people today want it All " said one psychic. Women always ask about love first even if they re up Lor a Job promotion. With men it s business first and love she spoke of one Young Man a manager of a Slock broker s office in new Jersey who called every weak for Lour years. He wanted to know lha auspicious limes to buy real estate and race horses. When she talked the Man from . Hulton listened. Having made his Fortune she said he s gone off to meditate on mount Himalaya or someplace like the Gypsy Tea Kettle on Lexington Avenue serves no Lea and employs no gypsies Only americans according to its owner Doris Haber. The Coal is $8 for a 15-Mlnlile Reading its clientele is a mix of old and new business. The professional crowd drifts in at lunchtime or after work briefcases in hand. Haber never asks but she has a theory about Why More Young people Are coming for readings. They grew up in the age of aquarius " she said and so have some Affinity Lor this sort of thing. Now they Are working at High stress jobs and faced with difficult decisions. For example she said years ago women never talked about investments because they had no Money. You could say they have More the stars and stripes Pago 15
