Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic life. Not the least of the benefits of this vitality is the workers' share. California's wage earners constitute a mass aristocracy that takes home about $1.5 billion every week; their per capita income ($4,111) is higher than that of any other state or any country on earth. Here too, think tanks like the Rand Corp. have evolved and become indispensable. With extraordinary skill ?and hubris?their staffers tackle virtually every problem in America, from campus riots to noise pollution. Think tanks by the score have attracted an intellectual elite to California. Robert Hutchins, president...
...BOOK is called "Whole Earth Catalog-access to tools." It comes out in two issues, Fall and Spring, with four supplements. Its purpose is described in the book's preface...
...these gains a realm of intimate personal power is developing-power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by the Whole Earth Catalog...
...Catalog is divided into sections, as most catalogs are. In Whole Earth they are Understanding Whole Systems, Shelter and Land Use, Industry and Craft, Communications. Community, Nomadics, and Learning. Whole Earth is a large book and opens up places you never thought of entering. The section on Understanding Whole Systems, for example, gives you a collection of things concerned with getting to know man better as a phenomenon living among and taking part in an infinite number of other phenomena. You really begin to appreciate yourself when you find out some of the ways interesting people are looking...
...foolish enough to read through all of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. So. it is only fitting and just, that Bored tells the mythopoetic fable of one Frito Bugger, an odious little Boggie. who accompanies the wizardly Goodgulf on a haphazard junket across Lower Middle Earth. Their mission: to dispose of an evil Ring by tossing it into the Zaza Pitts of Fordor before being captured by the nasty nares. With self-consciously clever digressions on drugs, violence, and the difficulties of modern communication, this book is undoubtedly meant to be received as an Epic...