Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done it again! Here is my theory: De Gaulle wants Pompidou as his successor. He requests Pompidou to resign, with this idea in mind, allowing Pompidou to disassociate himself from the most unpopular problems faced by De Gaulle. Pompidou's figure is kept well within the public eyes. De Gaulle calls for a referendum. If he wins, he can nominate Pompidou as his Premier and successor. If he loses, Pompidou is not hurt by the results and is still the most prominent candidate to succeed De Gaulle. One way or the other, as on almost every occasion...
...economic security," Dr. Bernard said. "Just a few years ago, I believed that a woman could not be casual about her own extramarital relations. Now a new kind of woman is emerging who can accept the sex-as-fun point of view without conflict." Although not necessarily endorsing the idea, she observed that married couples have become increasingly willing to accept a new kind of marriage that preserves "permanence at the expense of exclusivity...
...them must be the right shape, so must nude fashions be worn at the right time and place. None of the outfits will do for an evening at the opera, not even backstage, nor are they likely to show up at a restaurant or on the crosstown bus. The idea is not to shock the general public but to dress with taste among friends -at intime dinners and small cocktail parties-in clothes that do not fudge the fact that the wearer is a woman, but leave a certain something to the imagination...
...roam the nightside of London with Maclnnes. Such trips involve whispers, a confusion of lights, pound notes exchanging hands, presences, but most typically a shabby street that could never be found again and a plunge down a dim staircase. At the bottom, a door. Closed, heavy, guarding the Platonic idea of door. Inside, music, smoke, cadenced talk as pungent as the smoke, and with it a sniff of corruption, a hint of menace. The scene may actually be a TV director's fashionable flat. It may be a club where acid-heads meet. It may be an African gambling...
HERE WE HAVE a fine example of a story written by two people who had just smoked mind-altering drugs. Think of it what you will. But if you want to "get something out of it," notice the way each idea in the story is attached only to its own moment. Images and events more than two sentences apart in this story bear no relation to each other. The mind-altered writer exists in the instant of his awareness. As you read the story, you will probably not be able to remember anything you've read longer ago than...