Word: addicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jury believed Danny last week, just as another Chicago jury had cleared him of drug charges in 1965, apparently accepting his claim that the police got an addict to hand him some "goofballs" on a street corner. The police, though, are not yet through with Escobedo, who lost his last job as a truck loader because of his troubles. In November, he was arrested for burglary and disorderly conduct, after a policeman found him urinating under a porch near a just-robbed Chicago restaurant. He now faces trial on those charges, forcing yet another jury to ponder the endless case...
There is undoubtedly too much buying for show, status and the sheer pleasure of expensive gadgetry. Perhaps the audio addict spent ridiculous amounts of money on massive monaural hi-fi rigs. But he later switched to stereo and small speakers not out of mere faddism but because they were better. Basically, the American wants what is best, not what will last forever. What upwardly mobile American really wants a car that will last 30 years, as he watches newer models go by, with power steering and brakes, pushbutton windows, et al. Or the refrigerator without automatic defrosting? The stove without...
Like so. When the hero (a full-blooded Oriental introduced by Allen as Phil Moscowitz) slugs a thug, he calls him nasty names: "Spartan dog! Roman swine! Spanish fly!" When he meets the villain, an egg-salad addict named Shepherd Wong, he expresses his contempt for a man with "a chicken on his back," and informs him sternly that "two Wongs don't make a White." And the villain, when he dies, gasps hysterically: "Don't let me be embalmed. I want to be stuffed with crabmeat...
...addict of pop-psych, this exchange only raises the question of what the computer itself stands for. Machinery, according to some more-or-less-experts, "is always an alternate to sexual procreation." This idea is borne out by the current intellectually fashionable bestseller Giles Goat-Boy, in which a super computer gets pretty sexy with the coeds, and in fact sires the hero. Other theorizers, however, are not quite sure whether the computer is a father or a mother figure, or stands for Jung's "wise old man" in mechanized guise, or represents modern man's ultimate alienation...
...learned Dr. H. Angus Bowes was presenting a learned paper before a meeting of the Eastern Psychiatric Research Association in Manhattan. The subject: "Psychopathology of the Hi-Fi Addict...