Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underwater sonic system that tells the fisherman where to cut off the engine. And the underwater swimmer, after years of face masks that cut vision from 180° to 75° and made the prettiest girl look like a sea monster, can now buy a new kind of contact lens: a tiny mask made of shatterproof plastic that covers the entire eyeball. Invented by Washington, D.C., Optometrist Alan Grant and Navy Captain Edward Beckman, the new lenses cost $175 a pair, or roughly the same as regular contacts...
...autobiographical character in each of his five novel emerges clearly from the "phantasmargoric world." But the author suffers from the plight of his central characters, such as the insane hero of King Coffin who flatly states, "It was true that no human being could ever achieve a real contact with anything or anyone." Aiken's characters are always distant and blurred for author, protagonist, and reader...
...Company New Year's Eve party, a soggy little orgy of pretend-gaiety, Domenico seems at first gawky and estranged. But he is drawn in, fearful, perplexed, hungry for human contact; until at last he bounces with the rest in a giggly conga-line...
...love is Antonietta, a girl whom he first sees at the company exams, and from whom he is separated by the precious jobs which might have brought them together. The company's vast impersonality keeps them apart, but is at least partially transcended by their glances, by their slight contact, and by the chance that they may some day truly discover one another. It is this possibility for change, for mutuality, that life extends to Domenico, which lifts his colorless routine into the realm of emprise. It is this possibility which lends animation, humor, and warmth to the Sound...
...cheapened, become cliches. Take Marx. Now we have all our Marxism in formulas like chemistry or math. All answers to all problems. But if you have a book by Salinger and a book by Marx you'll read Salinger. People forget that Marx really said things. About man, about contact between people, about a better society...