Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe looking for? An obvious question with a not-so-obvious answer," explains Introducing Radclifte. They were not, for example, looking for the girl in the grey flannel suit. They were, apparently, looking for you and me and the girl down the hall, the one who runs a vacuum cleaner every Sunday morning at 6 a. m. In high school the corridors smell of chalk dust, and lunch costs 45c with milk, and who the hell are they looking for? I, you see, knew all the Presidents once, but Margic knew all the Presidents and could run the track faster...
...newspaper or understand a movie. He watches his television set an average of 13 hours a week. He uses his neighbor's telephone, but expects to get his own within a year or so. He has a car-a modest economy Renault, Fiat or Volkswagen. He has a vacuum cleaner, washing machine, food blender and refrigerator, but no deepfreeze, air conditioner or dishwasher. He has a savings account, but hoards a bit of gold at home as a hedge against a sudden collapse of paper currency...
...background is suburban all right, and decidedly upper middle class. Affluence is everywhere, but real, meaningful choice is denied. Childhood and adolescence are a time for learning the poses which will carry one on through a vacuum-packed life...
...corporation would work, instead, through international development bodies like the World Bank. Funneling aid through multinational organizations would free the United States from carrying the full burden of development aid and ease the client-patron hostilities that have crippled some aid projects. A technical-assistance institute would fill the vacuum m technical assistance left by the dismantling of AID missions...
...What we're trying to do is make clear that the long winter is coming to an end, that we will reclaim the whole political process as a vehicle for social change," Lowenstein says. "We have to fill the technical vacuum of how to mobilize people against the war. This will ideally build pressure in Congress for McGovern-Hatfield, for a date-certain, and prevent wilder tactics...