Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solution to our dangerous discontents- calling for a reintegration of ourselves into a community-is remarkably similar. Slater criticizes our compulsive inability to confront important issues and chronic social problems. He notes wittily that our approach to transportation problems has had the effect of making it easier to travel to more and more places that have become less and less worth diriving to-that is, if one can afford the luxury of a private automobile...
Which perhaps needs a moment of explanation. Heinlein, "the dean of space-age fiction," has been one of my favorite people since I was ten. Red Planet, Between Planets, Have Spacesuit- Will Travel, Pod kayne of Mars, Starman Jones, The Star Beast, The Puppet Masters, The Menace from Earth- I have read all of his books at least twice, and many of them ten or twelve times. And so have millions of sci-fi freaks around the country. I imagine that a lot of them right now are holding their heads and moaning, "Bobbie, Bobby Heinlein, how could you treat...
...expended extraordinary energies and time in the bread-and-butter arrangements of travel, menus, audiences, and overnight accommodations due our semi-official guests-all without secretarial help-thus somewhat dulling hours in which we theoretically were to occupy ourselves in thinking great thoughts or uplifting journalism if not our immortal souls. My contribution to these frowned-upon seminars was to provide two men large in contemporary American letters, both of whom happened to be my special old literary heroes. Let us here consider the hazards of such an exercise in modern-day Cambridge, digressing to include arbitrary judgments on Norman...
...separation of life from work sends millions out to parasite communities around the smoking city. The rest have to work in boxes, travel underground in boxes, and live in boxes. The horror of the City pushes people even farther into themselves as they walk down the street. All of the buildings weigh on your shoulders as you touch the sidewalk...
...many of us have determined to travel on our own, seeking the kind of free mental space in which to observe, imagine, write, only to find that a woman is never as free as a man to bum across country or through Europe? Ever try to sit down in a park with a book or a sketch pad for more than five minutes without some character feeling it his obligation to make an attempt at picking you up? Of course you can get rid of him but your peace of mind is shattered for that...