Word: bounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...train, they greeted her warmly: "Hello, welcome to Cowards Anonymous." Baez has since conquered her fear, but not Actress Joanne Woodward, who, like many another nervous flyer, takes a couple of tranquilizers before getting on a plane. "It's an absurd way to travel," she explains. "One is bound to feel claustrophobic-no one was meant to be 35,000 feet up in the air." Says Comedian Bob Newhart: "I take white-knuckle flights. I have a couple of drinks before, a couple during the flight-and then I sit there and suffer...
...procedures, a maneuver that U.S. spacemen have already perfected, or building an earth-orbiting space station. Indeed, there were suggestions that before the week ended a third capsule might be launched to join the first two. But the Russians may also be assembling the pieces of a composite spaceship, bound for the moon. U.S. space experts studied that technique years ago and abandoned it as too expensive. The Soviets' last space shot, a circumlunar mission powered by a giant booster, suggested that they too had made the same decision. Now, no one can be sure. U.S. spacemen could only...
Technocrats. "They" are the young. By 1980, They have taken over the country from bomb-happy right-wingers. Justly loathing the Establishment, fearing the infection of its diseased cultural tradition, They have become sensation-bound technocrats. One of their earliest decrees is that everyone over 50 must live apart from society. Most of the aged are consigned to public institutions to await death-from either natural causes or pills and injections called "compilers." A few old folks who have made notable contributions in the arts or sciences are permitted to live on in their own homes, provided they...
...rugby you always give your opponent the benefit of the doubt," says one Harvard player." "He's often quite involved in the game, and sometimes doesn't realize that he has hit you illegally. At any rate, if it's a flagrant enough violation the referee is bound...
...confrontation indignation ebbs. Watch that anti-authoritarian hang-up, man. These aren't the days of Babbit, you know. Things have changed. Business is ghetto-bound and groovy and so forth. New managerial elite. They don't discriminate, and if they do, they're sure not going to tell you about it. These are politically sensitive times, after all. By 1970, half the nation under 25, you're a valuable commodity. You know, he's probably going to offer you the job right there. He's going to say you're a nice Jewish boy, just what we've been...