Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films. Drinks are poured to ease tension, which is high. Swingers, it turns out, are not really liberated; they act "as if they are at a high school prom where no couple wishes to be the first one on the dance floor." Finally, after a decision is made to swing open (everyone together) or closed (separate rooms), someone suggests: "Let's go check on what's happening in the bedroom...
Scientists disagree on swingers' motives. Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner feels that couples who swing are incapable of intimate relationships even with each other and use wife swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Bartell likens the suburban wasteland to the sterile Arctic habitat of the wife-swapping Eskimo. The sterile environment, he concludes, leads some people to try group sex simply to relieve boredom. Others hope it will make them feel young, avant-garde and sexually desirable. Moreover, swinging "is in keeping with American cultural patterns: to be popular, to have friends...
...began to inquire about the nature of a conscientious objector status. Here began my second break with the posture of representative manhood. Ironically, after being granted a tentative conscientious-objector release from the Marine Officer Program. I decided to rejoin it. This return, however, did not represent a swing of a pendulum from a rebellious position back to a formerly rejected one. Rather, it was the end-product of my study of various radical and dissenting movements in American history, and a rejection on my part of the kind of separatism and apocalypticism which has characterized many of them...
Fervor of Religion. There is no doubt that Friedman's persuasive powers helped to swing the Nixon Administration away from the precepts of Britain's late John Maynard Keynes. An apostle of intervention, Keynes acknowledged a role for money policy but preached that governments should mainly manipulate fiscal policy-that is, taxes and spending-to help determine their economic destinies. Nixon's top economists rejected the Keynesian "new economics" of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. They labeled themselves "Friedmanesque," and indicted the "new economics'' as the cause of inflation and social unrest...
...only indirectly involved; 3% of its oil comes from the Middle East. But most of the companies in the talks are American-owned, and their investment runs to billions of dollars. Last week President Nixon sent Under Secretary of State John N. Irwin II on an unusual swing through the region to try to persuade the more moderate governments to agree to the oil companies' chief request: a firm agreement setting prices for the next five years...