Word: pill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more-and feel more frustrated when affluence, equality and education are too slowly achieved. In this heated situation, old institutions are too often archaic and unresponsive to change. Instead of plunging forward with history, the Kremlin fears the Czech disease of freedom. The Vatican is impelled to ban the pill. Congress rejects effective gun regulation. Whatever the issue or nation, something loosely called the "establishment" resists aspiration and innovation. The global result is growing impatience with old political processes; a desire for direct action is inflaming minds and causing almost daily clashes that defy law and logic...
...none, or if she has premenstrual tension or endometriosis, bleeding between periods, excessive hairiness or pimples [caused by an excess of androgenic hormones], or is excessively fat or is approaching the change of life, her doctor is morally justified in prescribing any treatment he likes. And that includes the pill." Dr. Cross's list is comprehensive enough to qualify about half the women in the world...
...from the '40s to A.D. 2158 and beyond, Vonnegut rockets the reader from the old themes of love, identity, loneliness and the poignancy of human loss to stories concerning population explosion, programmed happiness and the emotions of machines. There are space-age satires about an "ethical" birth-control pill that does not prevent conception or solve the population explosion but takes all the kicks out of sex, and a happiness machine that makes people so euphoric they almost starve to death. Man has once again tripped over his own shoelaces. Though Vonnegut is knocking a misplaced sense of values...
...Despite Pope Paul [Aug. 9], many of us will continue to do as we have done in the past: take the pill, go to Mass and receive the sacraments, because we live by our consciences, which tell us that the law of charity, affecting our relations with our husbands, children and society as a whole, is more binding than an encyclical filled with unrealistic opinions...
...Pill I can accredit harmony, communication, fulfillment, satisfaction, happiness, stability, understanding, acceptance, relaxation, achievement, compatibility, courage, love, peace and Christ...