Word: highly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people gulp more pills than Americans. Each year the nation's 65,000 pharmacies and 7,137 hospitals fill a billion prescriptions, mostly pills. Amazingly, in an era when men walk on the moon, millions of high-priced man-hours are wasted counting all the pills by hand. Riches have long awaited the inventor who could devise an automatic pill counter...
...Complete Work of Raphael. 649 pages. Reynal & Company. $45. The year's blockbuster (a 12-lb. book) shows and tells everything about the painter, architect and sonneteer who personifies the High Renaissance search for ideal beauty and harmony. Always overshadowed by the matchless genius and crotchety vitality of Michelangelo, Raphael in this volume exhibits unexpected depths of power and humanity...
...Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. 370 pages. Chelsea House. $12.50. Although the camping season ended some years ago when Susan Sontag explained it all, these selections from the comic-strip adventures of Buck and Wilma, "the blue-eyed, golden-haired, high-spirited young soldier-girl," are better late than never. Killer Kane, the Red Mongols, sexy space gear, baroque weaponry and quaint racial slurs-it's all here, from Buck's awakening after 500 years of suspended animation to his inconclusive battle with the Atomites...
Kitsch: The World of Bad Taste by Gillo Dorfles. 313 pages. Universe. $10. A 16-inch-high statue of Jesus Christ with a clock in the belly is unquestionably kitsch-a German word meaning "rubbish." A six-inch plastic statue, of the same subject blessing an automobile dashboard is questionable kitsch, though the decision, like beauty, depends on the sophisticated eye of the beholder. Gillo Dorfles of the University of Milan has excavated the historical and contemporary worlds of religion, art, architecture, advertising and movies for kitsch artifacts...
Monday night my birthdate came up second out of 366, smashing my hope of painlessly escaping a system whose purpose and methods appall me. I had seen the opening: parlaying four years of an elitist deferment with an unreachably high birthdate number, which would carry me until my liability ended. Instead, a random grab at pile of capsules has permanently cemented the alliance between my self-interest and my most detached political beliefs. I think draft resistance would have remained my political position after it no longer had to be my personal position. As it is. I'm not given...