Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tuesday paper, Monday afternoon for the Sunday magazine 20 days hence, and Thursday afternoon for the Saturday paper. He makes no effort to store up ideas. "It's like analysis; you block out the time and see what comes out." If he writes what he thinks is a bad column, he does not wad it up and start over. He publishes it. "Observer" is not a single point in space but a curving line of ups and downs, and the sagging author figures he will have another shot at splendor in a couple of days...
...group grudgingly attended by Jake puts the matter succinctly: "What's with Jake is that he can't get it up any more, and what's with Brenda is she thinks it's her fault for having gotten middle-aged and fat, so she feels bad...
...distinctions between the people and their leaders are ultimately somewhat artificial. They are also recriminatory and divisive in any crisis that calls for the unity of shared sacrifice. Blame for heedless profligacy and bad planning should be addressed to corporate and Government leaders. But the responsibility is also shared by the larger population. Pogo's winsome cliché"We have met the enemy and he is us") is in full operation. Americans are not, after all, mere spectators in the drama of their own lives. They are, in historical terms, the most appallingly wasteful people who have ever lived...
...about the energy shortage has two elements. First, a somewhat truculent sense of equity leads people to insist, "I will sacrifice, if necessary, but I'll be damned if I'll be the first." That leads to a paralysis of selfishness in which each citizen assumes the bad faith of all the rest...
...Lauren Bacall by Myself, Bacall (2) 4. The Bronx Zoo, Lyle & Golenbock(4) 5. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff (3) 6. The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Pritikin with McGrady...