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...Pill, nearly all laymen consider it a major cause of the new freedom, but a majority of professionals disagree. Because most girls dislike seeing themselves as on the lookout for sex, few go on the Pill until they are having intercourse regularly. Even then, because they are worried about its side effects, almost half choose other means, if indeed they use contraceptives at all. Just the same, Hartsdale, N.Y., Psychiatrist Laurence Loeb believes, the very existence of the Pill has important psychological effects because it means that pregnancy is avoidable...
When I am arranging all that madness that unleashes the spectators' glee. I am not amused by it. I keep the cool, calm pose of the chemist measuring out his medicine. I put into my pill a gram of imbroglio, a gram of licentiousness, a gram of observation. As well as I can, I grind them all into a powder. And I can tell, almost without fail, the effect that they will produce...When the work is done, what a relief! I regain my freedom. Georges Feydeau...
...Americans weren't alarmed over the energy crisis. Why, any day now some Jonas Salk at Con Edison will find a way to make electricity from turnip greens, and our cars will run pollution-free for a month on just water and a tiny pill...
...outside power has become a snout-nosed prod ("the Goad") that rattles on stage to awake first Klein, then Volpe, who like wind-up tops proceed to go through their daily routine. Klein and Volpe again are a nice contrast: Klein prays to the ceiling and pops a pill before he can slump out of his sack; Volpe is already speeding: he shadow-boxes even while he eats his morning carrot...
...There was plenty of dope and tranquilizers available; three times a day they'd bring out the pill tray and 200 guys would line up." On the black market, "there was heroin, hashish, marijuana, plenty of it, anything you want as long as you got money, or you can sell your body. They think you will accept the prison because you're allowed to have things like that. But what about the guy who's stabbed by a guy who's on drugs...