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Many cab riders are determinedly finding merit in the subway. "It's dirty, crowded, airless and awful," says Film Maker Peter Hansen, "but it's fast, and by God it's still cheap [30?]." One elderly woman, climbing the stairs from the 1RT, said to her companion: "I don't know what all the talk is about. I didn't see a single mugging." For others, like Maxwell Dane, a founder of Doyle Dane Bernbach, only the ultimate form of resistance will do. "Walking," Dane suggested to his employees in a memo about the fare...
...would gobble up anything from beer cans to tires, shred the stuff into small chunks, separate the different materials, and disgorge salable granules of glass. steel, aluminum and shredded paper. Organic wastes would be turned into a rich compost. Useless refuse would be incinerated, or "pyrolyzed"-burned in virtually airless furnaces. The state of Delaware has put up $ 1,000,000 of the plant's $10 million building cost. If the Federal Government agrees to share the rest, by next year the plant could handle 570 tons of refuse a day while turning out 262 tons of reusable materials...
...latest development is the live sex show, in which a naked couple perform before viewers, who pay up to $15 to watch, often in dingy, airless backrooms. At least half a dozen live showplaces have opened in Manhattan. In Los Angeles, four bars and three moviehouses have started live shows within the past two months. One bar owner there sums up the economics of the trend: "I had a regular beer bar here, and I was lucky if I took in $80 a night. Now I get a couple onstage, pay them $10, charge a $3 cover...
...land where once only wars abroad set it fluttering in vast numbers, the caricature of a new conflict is raging right at home. The old meaning still persists; hardly any American could escape a thrill of pride when Neil Armstrong planted his vertebrate flag on the airless moon. But some Americans could also sympathize with the emotion that moved a student at Kent State to rip down a flag after the shootings. It is as if two cultures, both of them oddly brandishing the same banner, were arrayed in some 18th century battle painting, the young whirling in defiant rock...
...world's disenchanted are lured into taking that final step. In May's judgment, apathy, not hate, is the antonym of love, just as detachment -not indecision-is the opposite of will. Some settle for the airless refuge that offers an anodyne for the anguish of being -commitment to life. Those who seek safe harbor become what C. Wright Mills called "cheerful robots" and Wilhelm Reich "living machines." They have opted out of life; they have surrendered the ability...