Word: fundamentals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cycles or Yeatsian gyres but the thumbscrew. On this subject, the correspondents begin to correspond: "The past is a holding tank from which time's wastes recirculate . . . History really is that bird you [Barth] mention somewhere, who flies in ever diminishing circles until it disappears up its own fundament...
Time has been considerably kinder to Comfort's ideas than to Come Out to Play. Its fey style and potty names (Fossil-Fundament, Sir Frank Pus) seem as ephemeral as fruit flies. Worse, Goggins' description of monogamous marriage as the act of buying "meat in unopened cans" is enough to make celibate vegetarianism seem downright appealing.* Paul Gray
...some ways they are more German than the Germans in the West-if a compulsion for keeping busy is considered a fundament of the national character. To gain a few extra marks, truck drivers frequently volunteer to work 12 to 15 hours a day; factory hands complain bitterly when their overtime is limited. Industrial charts show productivity gains that even West Germans envy...