Word: expression
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...distribution of the "Yale Guide to Sex on Campus") is well equipped to provide information and referrals on the subject of birth control and abortion to Harvard-Radcliffe students and their partners. We are also very willing to listen to and talk with anyone who wants to clarify and express his/her feelings on these and any other matters. We are all students, supervised by counselors at UHS and the Bureau of Study Counsel (including Ann Bisbee, whom you mentioned in your article.) In addition, we have met with representatives of the Massachusetts Planned Parenthood League to round out our knowledge...
...EDEN EXPRESS by MARK VONNEGUT 214 pages. Praeger...
Vonnegut is not a bad name to have on a book if one is simply interested in marketing a name brand. But Mark Vonnegut, son of Kurt, has considerably more on his mind. He has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic. Eden Express is his attempt to describe the slippage in and out of madness, to distinguish between the chaos in his head and the confusion of the world and, finally, to achieve a balance between romantic myths about sick minds and the cold evidence that his own disorder is the product of abnormal body chemistry. The result...
...could live in a plastic condominium with a wife I didn't love and lots of bratty kids . . . I wouldn't like it but it wouldn't drive me nuts," he writes, unaware of the brattiness implied by such conjecture. Yet in the end, Eden Express is a painfully honest document of a life in transition. The shift is even evident in the book's style. The early pages contain the sort of hippie jargon that franchises experience into junk food for thought. But by the end, Vonnegut has found a truer, more subdued voice that...
...would not admit anger toward her husband. When she was finally able to confront the real reason behind her feelings, she became aggressively angry with her husband. The male attendants tried to subdue her, thus doing what Scarf considers to be "positioning" the woman. Her inability to express anger had caused her psychiatric difficulties, yet display of this anger is not "feminine...