Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name appear. Then, at the last minute, Goodwin's name appear. Then, at the last minute, Johnson pencilled in the word "Miscellaneous" and beneath it wrote, with deliberate ignorance, "Goodman." It is just as amusing to learn that Johnson's insistence that his subordinates "accompany him into the bathroom for conversations during the most personal of body demands" drove C. Douglas Dillon out of the Cabinet. Then there is Mrs. Averell Harriman's response when told her husband looked terrific at age 70: "You'd look terrific too, if you did nothing but play polo until you were forty years...
...together without logic or order. The "no exit" situation would seem well suited to psychic drama. But Rafelson leaves unexplored Nicholson's talent for tempestuousness and dwells in a tone of wistful resignation. The problem again is Rafelson's self-conscious world-weariness. He shows Nicholson improvising in the bathroom. "The form of the tragic autobiography is dead. I have chosen radio...because my life is hopefully, comically unworthy." If this is a snub at melodrama, it is hardly less sentimental. Rafelson has merely traded in emotional pathos for grotesque wihimsy David's jadedness is supposed to be glamorous...
Your writer shows his ignorance by critically noting that on auto assembly lines a "worker must even get permission" to go to the bathroom. Would your writer stop an entire assembly line producing a car a minute rather than have a foreman find a temporary replacement for a worker who can't wait for the regular rest period...
...Marsha Miles, a black sophomore at Yale, remembers what it was like to have a white roommate as a freshman: "I was a curiosity to her. She used to come into the bathroom to watch me comb my hair." After a year of that, Marsha decided to live with five other black women-and no whites. "It's no fun being a living experiment for somebody," she explains...
...repetitive, and too often dirty, noisy, demeaning and dangerous as well. It is a national scandal that last year on-the-job accidents killed 14,200 U.S. workers. In most auto assembly plants, a worker must even get permission from his foreman before he can go to the bathroom. The four-day week offers no real prospect for humanizing work; doing a boring job for four days instead of five is still an empty experience. Charles Reich says: "No person with a strongly developed aesthetic sense, a love of nature, a passion for music, a desire for reflection...