Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prudence can achieve its ends in a less dogmatic fashion by treating the creative act as a purely intellectual one, an exercise in homeopathism in which noxious vapors are conducted into the chambers of the healthy to produce in them in mild form the symptom of disease. Poetry becomes not the hallucinations of passions or wishes but the hallucination of having wishes or passions. The most awful themes can thus be considered with a grotesque and unfaltering sincerity. Observe Elise N. Rosenhaupt on the hobby-horse of the mind-body duality...
...causation and execution, the murder of Martin Luther King was both a symbol and a symptom of the nation's racial malaise. The proximate cause of his death was, ironically, a minor labor dispute in a Southern backwater: the two-month-old strike of 1,300 predominantly Negro garbage collectors in the decaying Mississippi river town of Memphis. The plight of the sanitation workers, caused by the refusal of Memphis' intransigent white Mayor Henry Loeb to meet their modest wage and compensation demands, first attracted and finally eradicated Dr. King, the conqueror of Montgomery, Birmingham and Selma...
...seven-nation London gold pool close to $2 billion. Like Britain, the U.S. has been living extravagantly be yond its budget, partly because of the heavy cost of the Viet Nam war but also through increased spending at home. Speculators' appetite for gold is only the most dramatic symptom of a monetary malaise that has also bred inflation, balance of payments deficits and a downturn in the world stock market...
Mask of Fear. Dr. Hartogs' eight-letter thoughts on four-letter words are confusing enough to make a saint swear. On the one hand, he says that excessive swearing may be a "symptom of pre-schizophrenic personality disintegration." On the other, he regards the growing use of obscene language as "a rising index of spiritual freedom." But he can't quite tell: it may also be a "mask of fear" and "the last resort of the non-achiever." This is simply to say what has always been known-that dirty words are not always to be taken literally...
Willfully jumping out of an airplane, with or without a parachute, may strike some people as a symptom of advanced insanity. Yet today in the U.S. there are 35,000 skydivers, and to them parachuting is a thing of beauty bordering on the psychedelic...