Word: creep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down the sheer glass wall-to-wall windows of Manhattan's new skyscrapers, sealed eternally shut to keep conditioned air within, creep caged steel scaffolds, hung from cables and grooved to the buildings' ribs. Controlled by pushbutton, equipped with telephone, they are manned by a squad of window washers plying sponge and squeegee with a freedom and speed unknown to their brothers of the old-fashioned safety belt. But now scaffolds have been grounded...
...began by describing the Creep as "a person who is falling to become a mature adult by deviating in the direction of 'weirdness' and weakness.'" The Creep is shy, unstylish, and awkward. He does not aspire to the sophistication and assertiveness of the "adulthood ideal...
Because society regards him as abnormal, and even his own biological development seems to challenge his child-like traits, the Creep becomes self-conscious, and may try to emulate his "normal" peers...
...Creep ought not to be ashamed of his personality, Flynt asserts. Flynt, lists four advantages of the Creep personality: he need not accept the bans with which society divides the adult from the child, he achieves an extreme sense of self-identity, he enjoys an advanced ability to fantacize, and he is in a unique position to be a cultural revolutionary...
Indeed, conventional society may profit from this last characteristic of the Creep--Flynt's favorite example of a Creep who made good is Emily Dickenson. And since the Creep can function in our "human" world, it is Flynt's final plea that humans extend tolerance to the Creep...