Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highly dangerous and monstrous agency; (4) propose the creation of a large public works and training program for all those able to work (those refusing to participate should be denied public aid); (5) propose the appropriation of adequate funds for food, shelter, clothing and medical care for the aged, sick and generally helpless (savings from the greatly bloated Pentagon and preposterous CIA budgets could and would supply adequate funds for these purposes); and finally, propose the creation of a top level group of educational experts for preparing a universal educational system, based upon individual talents and national need...
...FEELING SICK? CALL YOUR LAWYER...
Virgin Queen. Forman was an abysmally credulous soul. "If I sneeze," he wrote, "once at the left nostril after sunset, it means an unknown person is coming; if twice at the right nostril be fore sunrise, it means a friend coming speedily for physic, or some sick body...
...this sort of thing that bothers Brayton. One week at Winston-Salem he pitched five innings on a Tuesday. On Thursday the starting pitcher got sick and they pointed to Brayton. He walked in and pitched a shutout for 8 2/3 innings. Afterwards the coach walked up to him and said, "Brayton, you're my new spot starter." When Brayton got called up to Bristol soon after, he ever got another start. Or the way Briston manager Dick MacAuliffe likes to let a faltering starter finish a game when it's obvious he should be pulled, just to give...
...years ago, a slogan was current that went "Support mental health or I'll kill you." One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a residue of that mid-sixties sentiment. Like the button it makes a sick kind of sense, though its message is, finally, silly and, in a simplistic way, evil. Only under flower-child aegis (Kesey's book was celebrated by Tom Wolfe, Allen Ginsberg and other gurus) could a 1975 audience be fed such sexist, crypto-fascist garbage. In the end, it's nothing more than pop psychology on the level of a counter-cultural Reader...