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William Shockley, inventor of the transistor and would-be geneticist, claims to have discovered that "the world spins on a teensy, weensy electric motor." "Sure, I'm saying this partly for shock value," Shockley says, "but, gosh, how else do you explain a play title like Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, or a movie like The Day the Earth Stood Still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1974: Who is President Derek C. Bok? | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

Professors Oscar Handlin and Donald Fleming sign a petition insisting that Derek Bok is, in fact, neither of them. "Whoever he is, he is a gosh-darned prudent administrator," Fleming says, "but whoever Derek C. Bok may be, he is certainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1974: Who is President Derek C. Bok? | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...LaCivita, second baseman for the Crimson said yesterday, "Oh gosh, this trip has been the only thing on our minds for a month now. We were afraid for a time that it might fall through after the trip we had planned last summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Team to Travel in Italy; Three Week Summer Slate Planned | 4/24/1973 | See Source »

...toiling to rid oneself of chains imposed by some other. Pleasure sharp and murderous, rages through her suddenly. Her motion inside the rain is a war; her battling unnoticed. Even though catcalls seem to be flying from all directions. Tiny boys whistle at her sturdy legs, gasping exclamations of gosh and wow! She pays no attention. Older men whistle and stare, tickled by her constant effort, her stamina, and amazed that she seems to be enjoying what to all of them is an annoyance to be escaped as soon as possible...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

...year marriage into "a damned exciting relationship." It has also led to a startling willingness to forgo privacy. One of the children recently asked her father at dinner: "Dad, how often do you masturbate?" And the children's mother confides: "Once in a while at breakfast Jim'll say, 'Gosh, we had a good time in the sack last night, didn't we?' ' According to her, the girls "get a kick" out of this sort of confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teen-Age Sex: Letting the Pendulum Swing | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

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