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...Alpha and Omega her friend the checkout boy was waiting for her. Honey-skinned brave named Stefan. Around his neck a flea collar. "You haven't gone yet," she said...
When Merrily came back to her little house stuck like a book in a shelf above the sea, she found brave Sam had turned on the radio and was smoking a lethal straight and listening sagely to a commercial in Spanish telling you how you could improve your husband's disposition and the quality of your home life by serving tortillas hocho in the hogar...
...answer is not as pat as it might seem. Though most Americans still accept efficiency as virtuous, there is a growing counter-cult that views efficiency as a dehumanizing, soul-devouring force. The cult began long ago, with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. In their nightmare Utopias, Brave New World and 1984, they depicted future dictatorships made all the more oppressive by relentless efficiency. The counter-cult has strong expression in modern science fiction. Example: in This Perfect Day, Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby, describes a futuristic society ruled by a gigantic computer, Uni, which calculates the most...
...Hampshire, where everything began in 1968-as in so many states-the brave talk of a New Politics has withered away in the face of Vietnamization and the Silent Majority. Unity has given way to the traditional leftist bickering and divisiveness that the professional politicians so disdain-and count on to maintain their power. Innumerable demonstrations, petitions, and fasts later, the war goes on and Nixon gets more popular...
...year-old New Yorker who has been on drugs most of his teen-age life. "When I was shooting up, I liked to read about other junkies in the papers. It fed my sickness. I liked to hear about the ODs [overdose cases], and I'd think I was brave for taking it." For kids on junk, of all the forms of treatment or temporizing that have been tried (see box, page 20), the residential group therapy center seems to provide the strongest support. The theory is that kids get each other on junk, and kids can help each other...