Word: ogdenational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gentle jest, the Wilson Library Bulletin printed a sign that read NO SILENCE. Mrs. Jeanne Phipps, chief librarian in Ogden, Iowa (pop. 1,500), found wisdom in the wit: "For a long time I had felt that our library was too formal. The association sort of said, 'We dare you to put this sign...
Mason Smith's many strengths as a novelist. In tone, texture and pace, Everybody Knows and Nobody Cares is that rarity, a book with no false moves. Smith's hero is Ogden Jones, a Ph.D. candidate in English with a loved and loving wife and three nice children. Discontent with an academic future does not gnaw at him; it nibbles in a stimulating way. So with sleeping bag, fly rod and the warm wishes of wife and kids, he temporarily lights out to what is now the territory behind -the America of high places, crystal air and honeyed...
Grace Without Pressure. Ogden knows it, and so does Mason Smith. In a variation of Nick Adams' trout-fishing scene in Hemingway's Big Two-Hearted River, Smith pays tribute to the old man with an exquisite parody of his style. It is done with the same sense of casual gratitude that a young hippie might express when accepting his father's old Army overcoat...
...scene perfectly illustrates the grace without pressure that Ogden displays on almost every page. It is there when he hops in and out of strange automobiles, instantly gauging and adapting to the interior emotional atmosphere. It is there when he hooks up with Erin, a delectable, thoroughly greened girl hitchhiker. In their sexual encounters they are more playful than passionate: getting there is more important, and more fun, than making it. Drinking in the natural and human wonders that pass their way, Ogden and Erin relish a dream that neither they nor Smith believe could-or should-last too long...
...carrot-and-stick approach, which rewards desired habits and punishes unwanted ones. Male homosexuals, for example, may be given electric shocks when they look at pictures of nude men and granted relief from the shocks when they view female figures (see cut). "What we are doing," explains Reinforcement Therapist Ogden Lindsley of the University of Kansas, "is very similar to what progressive businesses do. We constantly monitor performance. But instead of improving sales, we try to improve behavior." Such a pragmatic approach is seen as one of the major advantages of behavior therapy by its supporters. Instead of searching...