Word: cod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest incarnation of the American private i., aged past the primed '40s and sagging benignly into dotage, yielding his sleek hide and tough aspect to crowsfeet and innocence. Transplanted from the big bad city and the crass apparatus called technology, the shamus is hiding out in Cape Cod, cloaked as a gracefully-aging police chief who abhors modern development...
Nine out of ten Americans lived on farms, grew their own corn and potatoes, made most of their own clothes. In the not-yet-crowded countryside and seashore, the woods were full of wild game and the waters of cod, carp, shad and salmon. Life was tough and dangerous but self-sufficient. What now seems amaz ing about this hardy era was the immense national feeling of self-confidence-the feeling, summed up in the phrase still imprinted on the back of every dollar bill, that America was a "new order of the ages." Toward the impressive contemporary Europe...
...Boston: "It has to do with the mythology of the godlike physician, the fantasy that doctors are monklike hairshirt types who never need a vacation." Moreover, because a patient tends to establish a close parent-child relationship with his psychiatrist, he feels abandoned during his absence. Vacationing on Cape Cod last August, Manhattan Psychoanalyst David Mann received several phone calls from patients who had read about the novel Jaws. "They asked if I have been eaten by a shark. What they really wanted to know was whether I was coming back for their therapy sessions...
...seen or heard of the movie won't think of a great white shark when he puts his toe in the ocean." Vacationers are in fact flocking in ever greater numbers to the seashore. As for the jammed local moviehouses, they are treacherously playing on nerves. One Cape Cod theater runs a telephone tape that announces, "Jaws is playing. See it before you go swimming." Shark jokes are all black; in an interview with "Hollywood's No. 1 star" on the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson asked a foam rubber great white, "How do you keep your teeth clean...
...family homes. Other projects range from a large eggbeater-shaped rotor being tested by New Mexico's Sandia Laboratories to small sail-driven devices created by such ecology-minded outfits as R. Buckminster Fuller's Windworks in Wisconsin and the food-growing New Alchemy Institute on Cape Cod (TIME, March 17). Long Island's Energetics Nine, Inc., recently started selling wind-driven units that deliver from 750 to 12,500 watts of electricity (an average refrigerator requires 250 watts). Some scientists estimate that with enough federal support for research and development (up to $18 million...