Word: public
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gasps. We lit the essential cigarettes and listened to his proposal for the creation and organization of H-RSC: The Harvard-Radcliffe Suicide Club. It went something like this. Once a week, one of us, drawn by lot, would make his way to Washington, to some public place where he would burn himself to death. Other Club members would make it known that he had done it to protest the war. The suicides would continue regularly until this clear illustration of what the war was doing to our youth made its continuation intolerable. We each believed in the vestiges...
There are many staff who are very dangerous and undesirable. Much of the hospital needs exposure to the public so that it can pressure for change. It needs honest reporting by people honestly concerned. Many patients are aware of their situation, politically. The hospital also needs people committed enough to work as attendants and nurses because they are concerned enough to literally get their hands in the shit...
...public is not impressed with that sort of optimism. There is usually a distressing lag between the time an anti-inflationary policy is adopted and the time when prices actually start to level off. Economists figure that it takes six to nine months for tight-money policies to slow down an overly accelerated economy, which is what is happening now. After that, still another three to six months generally pass before price increases start to lade. By this reckoning, the Administration will do well if it manages to reduce today's 6%-a-year price inflation to something approaching...
...falling, and workers can hardly be expected to take wage cuts to match the decline in output per man-hour. As for jawboning, Nixon's Republican advisers consider it unfair and almost immoral to single out individual companies or industries, as Presidents Kennedy and Johnson did, for public or private attack over prices...
...husband are sheltered from the city's clang and danger. Living in Canada, the Smiths remain almost entirely American in their concerns. Joyce Carol-though she is against the Viet Nam war -has little sympathy with the kind of radical who, she feels, confuses personal frustrations with public problems. A minor character in her latest novel defines the type perfectly. She has small patience, too, with intellectuals who find her work too full of social and economic themes. "The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward," she says. "Intellectuals have forgotten, or else...