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...Erikson's meaning which is in no way invalidated by its abuse. For Erikson points to the late adolescent's subjectivity, his seclusiveness, his rebellion against his environment as well as the opposites of these traits--his striving for intellectual understanding and objectivity, his quest for all-embracing companionship, his search for answers from the adult world. In the presence of such routine inner turmoil, emotional stress is an everyday byproduct. In fact, in adolescence (an age which Erikson wryly says lasts "from puberty to maturity"), the psychological mechanisms which normally maintain emotional reactions within a reasonable range, swing...
Among single men, the favorite city is Bangkok. Its Petcahburi Road offers the neon-lit Goldfinger Massage Parlor, the Whisky A Go-Go Club and some 50,000 bar girls, but also impressive temples for inspection during the recuperative hours. The companionship of a girl who also numbers English among her several skills can be secured for $11 a day or $50 for a full five days. After Bangkok, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Taipei get about equal attention. Tokyo is particularly popular in summer because it is cooler, attracts those troopers who like modern nightclubs but also recognize that Japan...
...Rattling around her scruffy flat, a penurious, retired domestic (Dame Edith Evans) lives a life of utter solitude in an atmosphere where the dripping of a faucet is a dramatic event. Her only companions are "the whisperers," unheard voices who speak in her cobwebbed brain, alternately providing her with companionship and terror. In the gritty industrial town in which she lives, time settles like the soot as she goes about her monotonous routine-a visit to the library to warm her feet on a radiator pipe; a stop at the police station to record the most recent threat...
...will result from worldwide birth control and the "massive failure" of the present family setup (as evidenced by "adolescent rebellion cults, overt and aggressive male homosexuality, female promiscuity, and a growing incidence of alcoholism, addiction and psychosomatic disorders in both sexes"). In the new family relationship she envisions that "companionship for work, play and stable living would come to be based on many different combinations, within and across sex lines, among different-sized clusters of individuals"-an idea that the new hippie tribes are already putting into practice...
...director of the Cincinnati branch, is rapidly outstripping its old reputation as a "sanctimonious swimming pool." It now provides sophisticated instruction in sex education and natural childbirth; last year the Y.W.s in Oakland, San Francisco, Pasadena and Los Angeles started special clubs for unwed mothers that offer not only companionship but also baby sitting and employment services...