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...there seems in such new novelty and head shop items an impulse to debunk childhood fantasies, or at any rate the fantasies of Disney's artists, by degrading the whole crew and thereby achieving a kind of liberation. It is Disney in the style of Jean Genet-a symptom, paradoxically, of the fetish for childhood that has seized many who are in the process of leaving...
...Each great road had the potential to become "a work of art, both as a pattern on the map, as a monument against the sky, and as a kinetic experience." Of course, the roads bred more cars, and cars bred what Banham calls "a coherent state of mind." One symptom: the emphasis on driving everywhere, a "willing acquiescence in an incredibly demanding man/machine system." Another: the customized car as a form of exuberant self-expression...
...confined to men. It can also strike females at home, in offices, in volunteer agencies, or even for Women's Lib. Afflicted housewives often overuse the phrase "Let me do it" while complaining of having to clean up after everyone else. But compulsive housework is not the only symptom of work addiction evident in the home; there is also compulsive childbearing, "one of the most exhausting types of work there is." The woman who has many children, Oates concludes, may simply be a workaholic...
...pointed out that the personal feud was a symptom, not a cause. We acknowledged the personal problem, but Munro should never have let it affect his running of the entire team. Will every player suffer against next year if there is one 'Gomez' on the team?" Thomas said...
Convincing Hanoi. But Laos is only a symptom of Nixon's larger problem. Time may, as the White House believes, work to the allies' benefit in Viet Nam, but it works against the Administration at home. Nixon's formula for U.S. withdrawal is inherently schizophrenic-widening the war in order to end it, persuading the nation that he is committed to withdrawal while convincing Hanoi that the U.S. means to stay just as long as necessary to protect the South Vietnamese government. But the time may not be far off when Americans will decide that an endlessly...