Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formal universities. Courses cover everything from drugs and Herman Hesse's novels to macrobiotic diets and Herbert Marcuse's philosophy. Like free university students elsewhere, W.A.F.U. participants subscribe to 19th century Educator Mark Hopkins' heroic if hoary notion that all that is necessary for education to take place is two people...
...moon and "bofing," which is Heliotropese for fencing with Styrofoam foils. Santa Cruz Free University has a class entitled "Of Course We'll Like It," a forum that guarantees the uncritical acceptance of unpublished poems, unpurchased paintings and unaired songs. "Let's get together and take loving care of one another's ego," urges the course prospectus. It is hard to see how this will lead to better poems, paintings or songs. Self-indulgence could turn free universities into a travesty of education in which "rapping" replaces research, and reason gives way to sensuality...
...Apollo 10 crew was indeed more earthy than any previously broadcast from space. But the lapses were understandable. When Snoopy began gyrating wildly after its descent stage had been jettisoned, an alarmed cry of "Son of a bitch!" escaped from the startled Cernan. As Astronaut Stafford was preparing to take black and white pictures during Snoopy's low pass at the moon, he suddenly shouted: "You know, this goddam filter has failed on me." Finally, at the end of the day, a ground controller asked: "How are you guys doing?" The reply: "The crew status is at tired...
...answer is yes. Man can extend the domain of terrestrial life throughout the solar system." If Paine's flat assertion sounded somewhat premature, or unduly optimistic, there was good cause. Apollo 10 was the sort of flight that can inspire even cautious men to let their words take wing...
...Take, for example, the relationship between the New York City Department of Social Services and a relief client named David Davis. With supporting testimony from three doctors that his wife had asthma, he applied to the department for an air conditioner. Although 99% of the city's relief recipients do not have air conditioning, officials decided that the request fitted a vague legal definition of "medically approved special needs" and approved it. Nothing succeeds like success so Davis then persuaded doctors to prescribe "special therapeutic experiences," for which the kindly welfare officials agreed to provide extra stipends; Davis spent...