Word: blisse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Anderson puts the questions anew in the second, longer, and stronger of his duo of playlets, Solitaire/Double Solitaire. (The first is an Orwellian fantasy penned in plastic.) In Double Solitaire, Charley (Richard Venture) and Barbara (Joyce Ebert) have allowed 23 years of marriage to carry them from bliss to boredom. Charley is also caught in the middle of the contemporary value crisis. On the one side are his parents, people of stamina and principle, who have weathered 50 years of marriage. On the other side is Charley's son, who flaunts his liberated liaison with a girl...
Hard Knocks. Illich skillfully picks holes in his own scheme. The drawbacks are vast. With total freedom to choose their education, people might prefer the bliss of ignorance or fall prey to "charlatans, demagogues, clowns, miracle workers and messiahs." Abolishing required school attendance, as Mississippi did after the Supreme Court's desegregation order, might encourage pinch-penny governments to reduce their spending on education. The poor would thus be abandoned completely to the school of hard knocks. More subtly, making teachers depend on student demand might do grave harm to universities that now support "impractical" scholarship...
...play cards. [Laughter.] No, you just simply enjoy the bliss of being under water, especially if you're in the tropics, where there's a lot of coral and that sort of thing. It's just a dream experience. It isn't like anything else. You get your face down in the water and you feel like you're back home again. Maybe I'm related to a fish. I knew a guy who could trace his family tree back to the original lungfish that crawled out on land. Very snobbish fellow, by the way. [Laughter...
...interviewer (female) for the London Times. "I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting women whose minds are wasted on a 'home,' " said Economist Galbraith. "Better have an affair," he says. "It isn't so permanent, and you keep your job." Marital bliss? "The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce. People are much happier then than when they are first married." Women would be happier, says Galbraith, if they were not trapped into looking after the children. It is "nonsense" to think they are better equipped...
...walk up apologetically to Teddy Kennedy, the different one, because there is a sadness that follows him. He gathers the tourists in his arms for the Instamatic pictures, and they dissolve in bliss. Wait, he says, have somebody else snap it so the mother can be in there too -and she goes out of her mind with joy. But is he too jolly? Yes. Driven by something that is bigger than him and bigger than anybody. There is the smell of position and power already in Kennedy's office. The couch is thick and lush, not the black Government...