Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kira's radical proposal is more down to earth: the seat should be just 9 inches high v. about 16 inches for the conventional toilet. For better hygiene, he advocates washing jets fore and aft. The seat itself would be wider, padded, and come with built-in push-up bars, paper holder and electric flush controls. And while on the subject, Kira thinks that the urinal could stand more study. Working with everything from splash diagrams to trajectory charts, the study group proposes a cavern-shaped urinal, suggests that it might pull down from the wall above...
...trying to push it through Congress before the public can object, and they have a powerful enough lobby for success if there is no publicity. Harvard and Radcliffe students can help fight the threat by signing the petitions now circulating and by writing their congressmen and President Johnson. Charles V. Martin...
...government revenue through corporate and personal income taxes, as against 60% in the U.S. Rates, on the whole, are steeper than in the U.S. Britain's 40% corporate tax compares to 48% in the U.S., but personal income taxes reach 91% on all earnings above $36,400 v. a top of 70% on incomes above $100,000 in the U.S. Now, Britain has embraced deliberately discriminatory taxes to tinker with its troubled economy. That may well prove a high price to pay in order to placate foreign creditors without sacrificing prosperity, for it still fails...
...masterpiece of the new manner, a book called simply V. (TIME, March 15, 1963), is an epic of planned irrelevance that Joyce would surely have respected. Unhappily, its successors have contributed little more than absurdity to the novel of the absurd. Constructed on the principle of free dissociation, they occasionally come off as hip happenings. More often, as lamentably illustrated in three novels published last week, they simply degenerate into glossolaliac gibberish...
...CRYING OF LOT 49, by Thomas Pynchon (Lippincott; 183 pages; $3.95), the author of V, is a metaphysical thriller in the form of a pornographic comic strip. The heroine, a girl named Oedipa Maas, one day finds her "Chevy parked at the center of an odd, religious instant. A revelation trembled just past the threshold of her understanding, a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meanings, of an intent to communicate." She pursues the revelation, and finds herself involved with a mysterious organization named Tristero. She pursues the secret of Tristero, and finds herself involved with such improbable characters as Stanley Koteks...