Word: kits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Does the list seem familiar? It is. But if Newlove applies his Instant Identifreak Kit too patly and produces some characters who are hardly more than bundles of attributes, many of his human inventions swell like bullfrogs from the sheer pressure of his linguistic vitality. Gabriel himself, with his constantly thwarted desire for transcendence and his unstoppable monologues on everything from sex to Homeric mythology, is a memorable caricature: beside him, the Beat heroes of '50s fiction look not merely anemic but ignorant. Gabriel, simply, is romanticism cubed: "Scrape your brain bare, like a battery electrode, expose your nerves...
...selling them in elegant velvets to women for $80." Mrs. Edmund Howar,* a Washington society leader, took the madness one step further with her appearance at a party last month in a pair of workmen's natural-colored overalls. Her purse, just as naturally, was a tool kit...
...Deer Vote. Coke got expert help in developing the kit from the University of Georgia's Institute of Ecology. "We wanted the kids to realize that the world is not infinite and that its resources are limited," says Dr. Frank B. Golley, executive director of the institute. "We wanted them to devise a strategy to live within those limits...
...called "Rescue in Space." The schoolchildren divide into two groups: eight astronauts going to Mars in two spaceships, plus ground-control crews responsible for the ships' air, water, food and living space. Once on Mars, one spacecraft breaks down. Given certain limitations, which the teacher reads from the kit's list, the challenge is to create and debate practical ways of bringing all the astronauts safely back in the closed ecological system of a single cramped spaceship...
...There are no winners or losers," says Lassor Blumenthal, a freelance writer who worked on the kit. "The players are all in the same boat." What the discussion basically teaches is the art of making value choices, deer v. developers, for example. Ecologist Golley calls such choices "the strategy of remittance." As Coke's own slogan puts it, the game re-creates "the real thing...