Word: mind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hawaii and Louisiana. Another of the bill's clauses raises the minimum wage for field hands from $3 to $3.30 an hour, and Democratic Senator Russell Long of Louisiana argues that the provision would require an even higher level of price supports for growers. With that in mind, Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church is pushing for a rise to 17? per Ib. Frets one industry lobbyist in Washington: "All this agitation for more subsidy is going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg." If so, it is about time...
...hours earlier P.B. Sykes and his strange feet did not exist. Now they do, brought into being by a process as astonishing and mysterious as the sprouting of legs on tadpoles. In Sykes' case, it happened five years ago. It still happens, three times a week, inside the wondrous mind of Russell Wayne Baker...
...shift are obscure. It is usually said that Americans became tired of being blasted out of their heads by strong drink, but this makes little sense. The only point of a cocktail party was to take leave of the senses, it being universally understood that nobody in his right mind would want to be present at one ... A likelier explanation may be the tyranny of fashion. This theory gains support from the latest development on the party front, which is the replacement of weak wine with water. All over the East Coast this summer, and perhaps even in less benighted...
...natural function, to be sure, says Stoller, but it is dominated by painful undercurrents from the past. Sex fantasies are not idle daydreams but carefully coded scripts by which the inner mind seeks to work out lingering problems from childhood. These scripts help determine whom the adult will be attracted to, how the sexual partner will be dealt with, and even what sexual positions are likely to be preferred. "Sexual excitement depends on a scenario," says Stoller. "The person to be aroused is the 'writer,' who has been at work on the story line since childhood." The writer...
...music. The harder he tries to be colloquial or hip, the more stilted he becomes ("What's bugging you, man?/ Cool and jivey once;/ Now, touchy and tight"). His three acts of roughly 30 minutes each are so compressed that they allow no development, leaving on the mind's eye only a flashing succession of emblems...