Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THUS NO RIGID church hierarchy is needed in the East, no state dogmas, no equivalents of the social power of corporate religion in the West. Each man should realize them himself, by himself, and then submit himself to the larger reality he has just discovered...
...Actually, Devo comes from Peoria--or, to be more precise, from Akron, which is probably worse. At least the band thinks so. Life in places like Akron--the factory routine, the Big Macs, the repression of natural instincts--may not literally "de-evolve" people, but it probably induces the social equivalent. The scientific basis for de-evolution seems pretty slim, but if you ignore the theory's crackpot side and think of it as a particularly inelegant form of social comment, it hits the mark...
...only to avoid abuses of workers or a return to the pre-Nader days of unsafe cars. If there were no mandatory standards set by Government, companies willing to spend hard cash on antipollution and safety gear would lose orders to competitors that refused to make those social investments; the callous companies would have lower costs. The nation desperately needs to find a sensible midpoint between too much regulation and too little...
...biggest factor behind that phenomenon has been the rise of two-income families, in which neither spouse has much time to spend prowling through stores. Other converts to catalogues are affluent singles and childless couples whose active working and social lives similarly leave little room for shopping. To reach these busy big spenders, retailers are increasingly resorting to the mails, and the result has been an explosion not only in the number of catalogues but also in the variety of goods that can be bought through them...
...unlettered self-absorption that has characterized the 1970s. Indeed, New Times may have been too good for them all along. As Hirsch saw it, "Back in the Watergate days things were working better for us. Now there aren't so many people interested in investigative reporting, the environment, social and political issues. Where did they go? Well, where did all the people go who didn't vote last week?" Added Jonathan Z. Larsen, New Times' editor since 1974: "We bore readers the bad news, and they slew the messenger...