Word: damns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Give a Damn...
...lowly Navy wife, I don't pretend to comprehend the intricacies of foreign policy and diplomacy. I refuse to understand, however, how a nation so full of people shouting "Give a damn" and "full commitment" can accept this so calmly. I suggest that the American people start to give a damn about those men doing so for them, to the last full measure. Shape up, America, and mourn your dead. You owe them that, and so much, much more...
That was well over ten years ago, and now things aren't so simple. The Senators (with or without Ted Williams) no longer mean too much to me; friends are harder to come by; and, as I learned at Agassiz this week, Damn Yankees is not necessarily a form of instant ecstasy...
...talented individuals and springy dances, Agassiz' Damn Yankees can never throw off the burden of a book in which things happen so dully and a director who does so little to slick it all up. Go to Agassiz expecting spasmodic thrills, but plan to find you ecstasy after the show is over...
...Eldridge Cleaver and many others, including lots of young girls, openly exhorted us to fuck such undesirables as Reagan, Daley, and the Chicago police, the word began to lose both its masculinity and whatever juicy meaning it had left. It became, in effect, an extremely derogatory form of "damn." And now even that meaning is being diminished. People use "fuck" so freely, and so many respectable magazines have decided to print it wherever necessary, that at least one writer in Esquire has used **** instead...