Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want a novel by Henry Miller or William S. Burroughs, a back issue of Playboy or U.S. Camera, or any one of several hundred sociological and medical textbooks, do not waste your time in the stacks. These items are not for the undiscerning eye of the casual browser...
...frazzling electronic music. Rather than standing on its own, it functions as an element in a mind-blowing fantasy of give-and-take with visual phenomena; the eerie amplified sounds absorb logic from their surroundings, lend drama to the enveloping space, and force the observer to fuse eye and ear into one receptive organ...
...woman rests content, once a dress catches her eye, until she has actually tried it on and examined it from every angle. Some women even insist on trying on outrageously wrong clothes just for the hang of it. As a result, lines queue up before dressing booths, coiffures become disarranged, clothes quickly become shopworn...
...absurdly high grade. Disorganized. Wears white socks." "Lecturer is beneath the usual intellectual level of Harvard professors." "Zzzzzz."). Academic competition is so intense that stories abound of students who hang blankets on their windows so that neighbors will not suspect extra nocturnal studying or, conversely, students who sleep with eye guards and all the lights on to panic a classmate...
...sorry for them because they dimly remembered the powerful joy that had been theirs. They wanted so much to experience it again. But that joy was not to be found on the trampled field or within the steel scoreboard--and certainly not in the dumb, sexless eye of television. The joy was gone, locked into the past, into that time of great achievement when we were all heroes in raucous love...