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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ethically as well as aesthetically disgusting. We over-consume ourselves into an unhealthy obesity. Then we compound our selfish idiocy by pouring still more dollars into fancy-priced reducing salons, ranch vacations, exercise programs and machines. We waste twice, while the rest of the world dies because it cannot eat its fill once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1974 | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...John McPhee's classic of sports reporting, Levels of the Game, did not join team tennis, although offered a bundle of easy cash. He admitted the idea was interesting but said he didn't think that was what tennis was all about. If it works, he said he'd eat his tennis racket...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: The Lobsters' Game | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...never even wanted any of those expensive, boxed chocolates. Those were for prissy old people who kept doilies on the backs of their chairs. Besides, you had to eat those slowly and you could only reach for one or two. After that, unapproving stares bored right through to your filling-ridden teeth...

Author: By Lou ANN Walker, | Title: The Rise of the One-Bite Bar | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...late to recapture those glorious days of childhood. Today's Sesame Street children probably have been taught to reach for an educational book instead of a chocolate snack. Adults eat yogurt. Everybody else diets...

Author: By Lou ANN Walker, | Title: The Rise of the One-Bite Bar | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...precious. Once they disrupt one class, they can do a lot." O'Toole says he regrets the "desire among faculty to court popularity. There's a tendency to be soft on students here. I'm the only one to enforce the smoking regulations and I won't let students eat in my class. One day I walked out of another class because a student refused to stop drinking from...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: They Do Things Differently at Northeastern Law School | 5/29/1974 | See Source »

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