Word: psychically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home it is psychic raiment that she lacks. She cannot sleep and will not wash. She longs to write a novel ("That would fix a lot of people"), but cannot write a paragraph. Her mother drives her crazy simply by living in the same house. With the awful logic of the mad, she considers and rejects any amelioration of her condition; she is under a "glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air." Rescued from a suicide attempt, she starts the long process of mental repair in an asylum...
...this point, those whose ages take them beyond the youth culture but have been radicalized by the vision of the new society have been almost exclusively middle class-those with the leisure time, and money, and psychic security that allows them to be free-free to act, free to care, free to love. The vision of Mayday, however, says very little to those - and most of America is among "those"-who do not have those freedoms...
...skeptical of human solutions, he nevertheless deludes himself that he can heal the modern soul with an invention which he calls the lapsometer. Like a latter-day Descartes focusing on the pineal gland as seat of the human soul, More constructs a machine that isolates and measures areas of psychic imbalance in the brain...
...within which the warrior must eke out a petty and sadistic existence profiteering promotions, medals, and love-making. Wry but bitter, Sloan's hero constantly visits the base's dentist while worrying about continual gonorrhea, and enjoys pissing into the flak around his helicopter gunship. Amid the war's psychic viciousness the hero maintains his uneasy sanity by means of his crudely cynical opportunism and angry mischief...
...this point, those whose ages take them beyond the youth culture but have been radicalized by the vision of the new society have been almost exclusively middle class-those with the leisure time, and money and psychic security that allows them to be free-free to act. free to care, free to love. The vision of Mayday, however, says very little to those-and most of America is among "those" -who do not have those freedoms...