Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Obligation belongs in an anthology of contemporary folk wisdom. "I have finally concluded," writes Gould, "that ours may be the only middle-class family in America to have taken the final revolutionary step toward total liberation. Our children swab their own bathroom! They also swab ours! Indeed, they vacuum the rugs, do the laundry and the grocery shopping, help prepare meals, do all the cleaning up after meals, make their own beds, clean their rooms, dust, sweep and polish surfaces as needed and sew occasional buttons on their father's shirts...
...That vacuum is partially filled by Madame Nadine, a film editor who walks up to Momo in a Paris park, tells him he is the most beautiful child in Paris and asks him to talk to her. He does until she says something disturbing at which point he leaves--only to return to her months later when his father, newly released from a psychiatric hospital, dies on Madame Rosa's floor...
...Christian Committee for the Defense of Believers' Rights, though Father Gleb Yakunin and other leaders have reportedly been threatened with prosecution if they persist in their efforts. Dudko also takes heart from what he sees as a religious revival. "There is a spiritual crisis in this country, a vacuum that has to be filled," he says. "A woman came to me and asked for her child to be baptized even though she is not a Christian. Why? She replied, 'To fill the emptiness in my child. I don't want him to be the same...
...rainy days or nighttime use, with one ultimate aim of exporting their technology to less developed countries. General Electric recently developed a tank that uses common salt to store for long periods heat collected by solar panels. Along with Owens-Illinois, G.E. is also working on advanced vacuum-tube rooftop solar collectors that double efficiency and cut costs in half. Exxon and Mobil are experimenting with photovoltaics, which they predict could be cost-effective by 1985. Martin Marietta and McDonnell Douglas, using aerospace technology, are now studying ways of building economical solar furnaces...
...subjective experience, the T.M. technique provides a natural means of arriving at "transcendental" or "pure" consciousness. This field also is called absolute, is unmanifest like the vacuum state, yet can be directly experienced. The following list of expressions have all been used by physicists in describing the quantum vacuum state and by T.M. practitioners in describing their experience of pure consciousness: perfectly orderly; perfectly stable; nonchanging; the source of all change; unbounded; the basis of natural laws; the state of least excitation; the field of all possibilities...