Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOFT SKIN. The emotional trigonometry of a love triangle occupied by an aging intellectual, his wife, and a pretty airline stewardess is worked out with fine Gallic elegance by Director Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows), who conquers triteness with pure talent...
...hence from anxiety. Movement, activity, "go", is always preferred to sitting around; the most desirable of human conditions is to be hopped up as much of the time as possible. Through experience (i.e. kicks) one transcends the nagged and nagging self to get out of one's own skin into that airy realm where no questions are asked, where, for that matter, there is no longer any articulate speech in which to ask them...
...then a serious problem will develop. The earth will be so thickly covered with layers of people and machinery that it will generate enormous heat. Some 60 million billion people, living 120 to the square meter in air-conditioned 2,000-story buildings, will keep the earth's skin glowing orange...
...familiar Scotch Tape, which 3M invented originally as industrial masking tape. Scotch Tape still accounts for 17% of the company's sales, has led to 400 other varieties of tape, the latest of which, introduced to the public in September, is a nonirritating bandage that comes off the skin without pulling or pain. The firm also produces magnetic tape for recorders and movie sound tracks, turns out much of the nation's video tape. Altogether, it makes 27,000 products in 17 countries. Leaps from one unusual product to another are commonplace. "It's like Columbus sailing...
...complete. He regarded hatred as the one majestic emotion of this miserable species, for he who hates is at least passionately concerned, not docilely conformist. He poured all his venom into a novel, Kaputt, an account of Nazi atrocities on the Eastern front, and into a later novel, The Skin, describing barbarous conditions under the U.S. occupation of Italy. With a passion akin to Swift's, Malaparte sought to indict the cruelties of mankind. Readers were shocked, as he intended; they were also shocked by the fact that Malaparte seemed to be enjoying the telling of these poisonous tales...