Word: aquarian
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...first week of February would ultimately battle for the same prize. But when Quarterbacks Roger Staubach of the Dallas Cowboys and Bob Griese of the Miami Dolphins meet in the Super Bowl for the National Football League championship this week, they will have more in common than their Aquarian fixity of purpose...
...some classroom problems of misbehavior may be caused by pupils whose birth signs conflict with those of other children, or possibly their teachers'. It may be, Robinson suggested, that teachers should take the planets into consideration to understand the kids better. Presumably, a Taurian heaving erasers at an Aquarian may have his cosmic reasons...
...blushing euphemism, they were known as "ladies of the night." Today they are called hookers, and in Manhattan, at any rate, their activities are not confined to the dark hours. Both in broad daylight and the neon night, they flash the pink, orange and purple hot pants of the Aquarian Age, not to mention the high boots that were once a specialty of their profession and are now merely fashionable. In the spring they sprout from the sidewalks, squawking, cackling and ogling potential customers, fanning out from the bawd-walk they have made Times Square...
...variety of tape copiers, from $40 recorders to $100,000 stereo duplicating systems, can turn out cartridges, cassettes or reel-to-reel tapes, usually in less time than it takes to listen to them. Music-trade publications and underground newspapers carry ads for the machines, and many an Aquarian-Ager has been able to convert his basement into a tape factory. Nearly every city has record stores, gas stations and supermarkets with selections of bootlegged tapes and records, which are usually packaged in unadorned boxes and albums with plain white covers...
...Many leaders of the Black Panthers were on trial, in Algerian exile ?or dead. Anger remained, but it became reflective or confused. Celebrants of Woodstock became the survivors of Altamont, the California rock festival that ended in a knifing death, and the depredations of the drug culture clouded Aquarian visions?Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, both cultural heroes for the young, fatally overdosed themselves with drugs. The hippie Camelot promised by Charles Reich in The Greening of America