Word: happens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is why the diggers believe in teaching by example, believing as they do that the spark exists within each person and only needs to be re-kindled. That can only happen by a blinding event generated by the sort of shared experience that is provided by the guerrilla theater of the life actors, music, dance...
...blessings of privacy, you understand, are not limited to protection from the public; they protect one from one's relatives as well. As it happens, I ascribe much of the success of my own three marriages (that's not many at my age I happen to be 68) to the luxury of plenty of elbow room. Association is more pleasant the more voluntary it is. A man feels the absolute need to get away from time to time to his own room, to his own wing, to his own little hideaway in the country or pied-a-terre in town...
...enactment of childbirth and shaving a form of castration. Speed and performance, or a sense of male power, are blatantly stressed in automobile commercials. Cars become wild animals or fish Wildcat, Impala, Cougar, Stingray, Barracuda. When a man slips behind the wheel humming "Only Mustang makes it happen," he, too, becomes a big ripsnorting stud. Ridiculous? Well, whoever heard of a car called the Aardvark or the Pussycat...
...insists, for lack of such facilities. A further drawback is that each patient is tied down to within easy reach of his own unit. Avram looks forward to the day when there will be "dialysis hotels" or "human Laundromats" where patients can check in at night, wherever they happen to be, get hooked up and dialysed, and leave in the morning...
...time of the six-day week, nobody cared much what particular day they fell on. The emphasis was on the patriotic speeches, perhaps the parade through town, and a welcome day off from work. Now, with the five-day week and the superhighway, the happiest holidays are those that happen to fall on a Monday or Friday, thus providing a three-day weekend. As any ski enthusiast or beach fancier can testify, there is a lot of difference between the two-day regular and the three-day special...