Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carrying On. In Otira, New Zealand, a health inspector reported that the Otira Gorge Hotel has only one bathroom, but two doors leading into it-one marked "Ladies," the other "Gentlemen...
Paul has given considerable thought to echoes. A good echo effect can be produced in a radio studio with a twist of a dial. But Paul finds that inadequate. "I got a better echo by putting Mary and a mike in a bathroom. That's how we recorded the Rheingold Beer commercials." For a still bigger echo, he uses two tape recorders, running them a split second apart...
...Culture of Bathrooms. Mumfordian man must not just look Mumfordwards. He must sense that the day is gone when millions could look to one great teacher for guidance. "The task of the individual Messiah . . . now devolves equally on all men"; tomorrow's model society must be a universal democracy of self-teachers. Candidates must begin not by enlisting in a party or signing a pledge, but by withdrawing into self-analysis and contemplation. Mumford realizes that a man can't just throw up his job and become a hermit, but he can "escape from [the] time cage...
Except for Straus, the living rooms and bedrooms in these halls are a little small, but each suite has its private bathroom and the dorms appear almost brand new. The top floor rooms of these and all of Harvard's traditional dormitories suffer space inroads from a slanting roof...
...morning while shaving, Wolcott Ferris, prosperous insurance broker, froze before his bathroom mirror as if he had seen a shrunken head. He had seen something worse: his shrunken self. "What are you missing?" he asked his blue-grey eyes. "Why the hell do you exist? Why do you go on living?" Why had life been picked clean to the bones short...