Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Away of somewhere beyond the Cambridge Common, Cliffies are hung up above love, sex, and all those normal things that Cliffies aren't supposed to get caught on. Will that goodnight kiss wind up in a late night wrestling match? Should you really sleep with him? Where do you get those pills...
With a certain desperation, he talks to adults about the rhetoric and euphemisms of Viet Nam. "People get shot every day, and bombed and burned and blown up. But no one cares about that. I mean they don't really mind, because anyway, people aren't really shot; fire is directed at their positions. And they're not really people; they're troops. They aren't even dead men; only body counts. And the degree of deadness isn't always too bad; sometimes it's light or moderate instead of heavy...
...confident that wealth will not blunt his outrage. "I'm not convinced yet that I'm even a writer," he says. "But if I am, hopefully, I can be more effective doing that than as one more kid picketing. And remember, the two aren't mutually exclusive...
...needle clean? If you haven't been too nervous, if you haven't forgotten, if you aren't jumping from foot to foot, then the calmness of extreme pathology has come over you, the worm of murder in your mouth, then you remembered to bolt the door, to boil the stick; what a laugh you have, man! What a weird cat would like the way you laugh! Colors mean nothing to you; the flying Byrds, the opening Doors, the Rolling Stones, they are nothing at all for you--that's it! Here it is. Welcome...
That was well over ten years ago, and now things aren't so simple. The Senators (with or without Ted Williams) no longer mean too much to me; friends are harder to come by; and, as I learned at Agassiz this week, Damn Yankees is not necessarily a form of instant ecstasy...