Word: stools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most places, the town-meeting style of democracy has long since gone the way of the cucking stool. Its heritage is the referendum, an instant, pain less substitute that leaves discussion of controversial issues to the press and their resolution to the curtained conscience of the voter. Sometimes the issues attract as much attention as the candidates, but more often they are so trivial-or so confusing-that they should never have been put on the ballot at all. Last week's election had a few of both kinds...
...highly unorthodox notions about how religion ought to be presented to the modern world. Last week Father Boyd was making like a Mort Sahl or a Lenny Bruce and pulling down $1,000 a week in San Francisco's dark and smoky hungry i. Sitting on a bar stool, his clerical collar shining in the spotlight, he is putting on a four-week act that includes readings from his book of unusual prayers, Are You Running with Me, Jesus? (TIME, Nov. 26), and anecdotal ad libs on such subjects as premarital sex, homosexuality, integration and the institutional church. Says...
...just plain pop. A onetime atheist, he was ordained in 1955, won quick notoriety and ecclesiastical disapproval by hearing "informal" confessions in bars and writing plays peppered with cuss words. He maintains that "you've got to begin with people where they are" and feels that a bar stool can be an effective pulpit...
...money on that." The now-notorious Mailer sense of smell, which got such a bloodhound workout in his last novel, An American Dream, now concentrates on the bowel: man's nature, he says, can be divined in "the color, the shape, the odor and the movement" of his stool...
Creativity Limitation. Such space-speak metaphors as "umbilical" (the cord connecting a space-walking astronaut to his craft) and "milk stool" (the arrangement of a missile's three rocket engines) are vital additions to the language, says McNeill. He is equally impressed by such metonyms as "eyeballs in" and "eyeballs out" (describing extreme conditions of acceleration and deceleration, respectively), and he approves of neologisms such as "rockoon" (a rocket launched from a balloon). Unfortunately, metaphors, metonyms and neologisms-and the creativity required to invent them-are limited. They constitute only about one-eighth of the entries in official NASA...