Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just why I'm sad that it must be as it will be. Maybe I'm just a romantic; maybe I only want to see the space-pilot analog to Ivanhoe; maybe I love the dreams of my childhood too much. There's just no telling. The only certain thing is that--whether we go to Mars or not--the choice has been made. You can see it in our literature; you can see it reflected in the increasing use of drugs; you can see it in self-conscious (and, perhaps, selfish) catharsis for guilt and boredom like the occupation...
...spokesman for Truman later said that "Harry sure hates to pass up M.U., but, well, he's just wanted this other thing for so long." He refused to elaborate...
...WHOLE PHOTO series on "Expansion!" and "Disruption!" is pretty funny. The "Liberated" documents are really good. This is the kind of thing we'd like to see more of since the Lampoon seems to be good at it and since it seems to have been fairly easy for Mad magazine to handle month after month, year after year...
...doesn't particularly bother me, now that they no longer sell subscriptions, that the Lampoon doesn't publish the eight times a year it pretends to promise. I think that people should write only what they're really up for. And the continued existence of such a thing as the Lampoon in rank, undeserved decadence doesn't bother me either...
...other thing" is almost certain to be an honorary degree from Harvard which this year holds its Commencement ceremonies on the same day as Missouri University. Ever since his term as President, Truman has been hoping to receive the Harvard degree, but each year his hopes have been in vain. Harvard has passed him over, seeking less controversial and more polished figures...