Word: mutant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remember the '50s. Nuf said. Remember the '40s, when our fathers died to rid the world of Capitalism's Evil Mutant, while our economy entered the state capitalist stage, run by and for big businessmen. Remember the '30s, when our poliomyelitic system acquired the leg braces that allowed it to keep playing hardball--braces like unemployment compensation, Social Security, deposit insurance, to make sure it never bottomed out again. Remember the '20s--the corporations are much bigger now, and they've expanded from Peoria to Pretoria...
...franchise for a song, because old Claus had no idea that his hobby was of any value, and besides, his doctors had been urging him for years to retire for his health. His job gave him ulcers. So Santa left Christmas behind to spend his last years breeding mutant strains of reindeer for high-speed sleigh competition, and Amalgamated Widget became The Santa Corporation...
Originally a simple mix of ranchers and stucco dwellers California society had become an exotic mélange riddled with hippies, surfers and executive dropouts. Out of this sprang a mutant pop culture. "Do your own thing" was the golden rule; ambivalence was its only sin. Mid-life divorce, recreational nudity and "Sunshine" LSD were all tolerated in the land of the topless shoeshine. Rock songs advertised the state (Fun, Fun, Fun) and its people (Eight Miles High). Thousands of teen-agers headed west and were hailed by older Californians seeking a formula for perpetual youth. Together they began...
...that is all too literally true. Across the U.S., a pattern of crime has emerged that is both perplexing and appalling. Many youngsters appear to be robbing and raping, maiming and murdering as casually as they go to a movie or join a pickup baseball game. A new, remorseless, mutant juvenile seems to have been born, and there is no more terrifying figure in America today...
Some of the visitors were less political. Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist, told the Law School Forum audience that women lawyers were "some kind of mutant," and Chevy Chase, former actor on Saturday Night Live, did not trip on his way into the auditorium where he spoke this spring...