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...enough to say "natural." The question is, "natural for whom?" It is natural, some think, to have monkeys in cages or goldfish in fish-bowls. But is it natural for men legally considered adults to have their personal relationships restricted, and thus defined, by others...
Only last year, many sociologists and psychiatrists dismissed the hippie hegira with a verbal flick of the wrist. The use of mind-changing drugs such as LSD, said National Institute of Mental Health Director Stanley Yolles in 1966, was a fad, "like goldfish swallowing." City officials blandly waited for the hippies to go away; indeed, a year ago they had established scarcely half a dozen inchoate colonies...
...into the sulfuric acid. And to those of us who watched, this five-minute interlude seemed interminable. Even after unconsciousness is declared officially, the prisoner's body continues to fight for life. He coughs and groans. The lips make little pouting motions resembling the motions made by a goldfish in his bowl. The head strains backward and then slowly sinks down to the chest. And, in Monge's case, the arms, although tightly bound to the chair, strained at the straps, and the hands clawed tortuously, as if the prisoner were struggling...
...left in his aquarium: a two-incher and a four-incher. The two-incher was downed during the day. At 6:30 that evening, before a large crowd at the Union, he swallowed the four-incher. The crowd cheered. The Boston press heard. The wire services picked it up. Goldfish swallowing spread...
...because it's more than 25 years later and the kind faces under white hats are descending upon Cambridge, it's the front page news, the goose stepping and the goldfish swallowing, that come back to mind. You pass the reunioners, and you think, if you think about such things, "There goes part of the Old Harvard--swept up finally, just as the Old Harvard was, in World War II." If, thinking that, you smile at them as they pass, they smile back, aware of what you're thinking and realizing just how wrong...