Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, there was a heady feeling of power for young men in dealing with the fate of the nation and jousting with generals. There was a certain selfishness in seeking a career as an "inner-and-outer," spending a few years in the thick of the Washington bureaucracy to establish can-do credentials for an enhanced reflective life back out on campus. There was also the thrill of the game, outwitting colleagues as well as Communists. Moscow and Hanoi were opponents to be taken or checkmated on the international chess board. The deployment of power was fun. War, really...
...entirely possible that the first words of the first psychiatrist were "Return to the womb." That classic concept a search for primal security-is precisely what French Designer Claude Vidili had in mind when he came up with the idea for his "Isolation Sphere," a tough and thick polyester shell almost six feet in diameter that is soundproof and guarantees privacy even in the midst of chaos. To retreat from the world, it is necessary only to step inside and close the door...
...gotten his magna and he was ready to consume now with the best of them. Walt turned on the radio and heard his song again- "I Love my Thick and Frosty/love my Thick and Frosty. . ." Could this be? From Birds Eye? As good a milkshake as you get when you drive out for it? As good as MacDonalds? Is it made out of chemicals? Is it real plastic...
...that one particular full love resting with one person can't stand sharing. So it's one of the saddest things in the world to lose a friend because closeness puts her at a distance. Because friendship can grow on one part to something wider and more full of thick spacey potential than the other's situation could digest...
...struggle because they are part of you. And lest that sound a bit too cosmically self-indulgent, what I mean to say is that whenever you reach a person as a true friend-the kind you can hug energy into and draw hope from-you're in the thick of it, baby! There is no longer the emphasis on a "cause"' because it sounds "just" to an American ear so carefully tuned to the omnipotence of maxims yet usually garnering only a vaguely distant "helpful" attitude. No, because when struggling people are an essential part of your whole life...