Word: gee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Golly gee whillikers," said the president of The Dartmouth when informed of his egregious error. "It takes a long time for news from the outside world to penetrate through the acres of unexplored virgin forests around out campus," he blubbered...
...same as you and me. The sentiments are still there--as Mailer wrote in 1958, the shits are still out to get us. But who are they? Definitions blur, and only one thing remains clear. As Dorothy said, (and as one of the chapters in Gravity's Rainbow begins)-- "Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas any more...
Majesty, squalor, civility and smiles in a gee whiz Instamatic Blur...
...most intensively cultivated fields, wheat and rice and sorghum and countless vegetables, pressing to the edge of every road, rail and airport runway. He sees the back streets of cities, busy from dawn to dusk, where every human activity save copulation is conducted alfresco. Then occurs the gee whiz Instamatic Blur. The people smiling and waving and clapping from city sidewalks and country lanes. The painfully hand-inscribed WARMLY WELCOMING boards. The impression, away from every preprogrammed and official event, that this is an extraordinarily relaxed, amiable and open society...
...satisfaction: "One time I'd just like to be able to walk away from a Saturday afternoon and say, 'Gee, I did alright. So far I haven't been able to do that. I've been down on myself...