Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly Strangelove freezes and pauses several seconds. Then, leaping from his wheelchair, he stalks toward the open-mouthed President, screaming, "I can walk again! I can walk again!" As the voice fades unevenly, the screen dissolves into a collage of mushroom clouds puffing noiselessly into the sky. Slowly a female voice rises in the background, singing a langorous "We Shall Meet Again." By now the audience has stopped laughing; few remember the short blurb that opened the film: "The U. S. Air Force assures you that what you are to see can never happen...
...Researchers in psychology and social relations are more liekly to perceive that they are conducting overlapping enterprises," he said, "if they can get on an elevator and talk to each other rather than having to walk half a mile...
Oxygen Debt. In a room that looks more like a home-economics lab than a hospital ward, women wash and iron clothes, bake custards and brownies, make dresses on a sewing machine. Men work in carpentry, repair the sewing machine (the actual trade of one patient), walk to and from a desk carrying stacks of books, use filing cabinets. Pulse checks are made before, during and after any exertion, but the most valuable gauge of heart strain is a gadget called a "respiration gasmeter," which tells Dr. Steinberg most of what he wants to know...
When you get home, you will want carefully to roast the seeds on any metal tray, if necessary in the bottom of a tea pot. But even as you walk you may reflect that not for nothing is the hero of Spanish romance, the center of a thousand battles, legends and dramas, the perpetual inspiration to duty and right, that transcendent entity known as El Seed...
...Unique Conflict. It remains for each man and woman to walk through this sexual bombardment and determine for themselves what to them seems tasteless or objectionable, entertaining or merely dull. A healthy society must assume a certain degree of immunity on the part of its people. But no one can really calculate the effect this exposure is having on individual lives and minds. Above all, it is not an isolated phenomenon. It is part and symptom of an era in which morals are widely held to be both private and relative, in which pleasure is increasingly considered an almost constitutional...