Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Entitled "Freud Eggs," the article has all the appurtenances of the learned-journal genre: discussion of control groups, statistical evidence, impressive phraseology ("the egg syndrome," "sensory food stimulator"), citations (Journal of Ontogenetic Orthopsychology), cross-references ("see 'Starving the Brain,' The Sciences, Nov. 1968"). The piece has elicited calls from doctors and scientists eager but unable to trace its sources. Small wonder: like everything else about the article, the sources are fictitious...
Even by 1975, the "national nest egg," as the Administration dubs the prospective leeway for increasing federal outlays, will amount to a mere $22 billion, or 1½% of the nation's total output of goods and services. That is based on the CEA's optimistic prediction that inflation will be brought under control by the end of 1971, with price increases cut to the rate of 1½% a year. After that, the council foresees a resurgence of real economic growth (4.3% a year) and unemployment declining to a moderate 3.8% of the labor force...
...stand in a waterfall, or take a "shower" of refreshing air. Or plop into an egg-shaped easy chair and catch a minute's snooze. Or sit in a moss-covered booth and cast your I Ching. The idea behind these and other "Contemplation Environments," currently on display at Manhattan's Museum of Contemporary Crafts, is to provide a peaceful corner in the bustle of city life where any and all might stop for a moment to think, muse, daydream or simply enjoy a quiet interlude. That prospect alone was enough to make New Yorkers venture...
While they argued, the redoubtable Creature dropped a large Egg to the Floor, from which sprang yet another full-grown Flarb. Debate doubled. The Flarbs increasing with the Argument, an Attempt was made to move them from the crowded Station to Pasture. They loudly protested. One of them ripped a County Fair Poster from the hands of an unwary Bystander with a talloned Wing-tip and flapped it wildly on high. The Mystery of the tiny Talon was solved. The Colony was scraped from the Experimental Station into the Farmyard...
...cooked an egg in a rusting...