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...still have problems coming to terms with "Christmas," start thinking how different it is from the summer be-ins, spring on the banks of the river with a transistor, fall touch football up and down Plympton St. Christmas is a big secret that everyone else knows. Maybe you wish everyone else didn't know it so you didn't have to ho-ho-ho your way down Mass Ave person by person. But let me ask you, what else do you have that you could be doing when December comes in to rattle the heat pipes if you didn...
...relatively expensive; each reading costs an average of $15 or more. Another reason is that there are too few expert cardiologists to read all the ECGs now taken, let alone the millions more that a truly effective preventive-medicine program would demand. Now, in an application of transistor-age electronics, a compact new machine enables technicians to do the initial screening, and select for the cardiologists' attention only those ECGs that contain warning evidence of abnormalities...
...embroidered on the back. When Dull drags him off, he yells, "Police brutality!"; and, soon after, he calls Armado a "Fascist Hindu!" Jaquenetta herself (Zoe Kamitses) turns out to be a yellow-stockinged blonde in a red and purple miniskirt, with sunglasses perched on her head and a transistor radio glued to her ear. Later she proves adept at swinging her hips and popping bubble gum on the downbeat...
...Arabs would seem to have every reason to want to forget June 5th. Yet throughout the Arab world last week, alternate cries of vengeance and mourning echoed from a million transistor radios and a dozen leather-lunged Arab prime ministers and presidents on the first anniversary of the Six-Day War with Israel. Heedless of the lessons of that swift, disastrous encounter, Arab speakers called in thundering phrases for a renewal of the war, foreshadowing further strife in the Middle East. As a fighting slogan the Arab nations have adopted "Victory or Martyrdom," and in a nationwide speech, Egyptian President...
...writer who cannot think of middles for his stories. The Dolt is also an oblique comment on the limits of conventional storytelling forms and a squint at the generation gap: the writer's son is an 8-ft.-tall hippie draped with a scrape woven out of 200 transistor radios, all turned on and tuned in to different stations. " Just by looking at him you could hear Portland and Nogales, Mexico." Occasionally, Barthelme gives in to his talent for slickness, as in Report, a tale of technology as mindless process. Among the accomplishments of his scientific elite: an artificial...