Word: wastelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scientists disagree on swingers' motives. Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner feels that couples who swing are incapable of intimate relationships even with each other and use wife swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Bartell likens the suburban wasteland to the sterile Arctic habitat of the wife-swapping Eskimo. The sterile environment, he concludes, leads some people to try group sex simply to relieve boredom. Others hope it will make them feel young, avant-garde and sexually desirable. Moreover, swinging "is in keeping with American cultural patterns: to be popular, to have friends...
Laos has been deeply involved in the war for more than a decade now, and this week's Allied incursion into the remote southern part of the country-an area already reduced to a cratered wasteland by nearly four months of round-the-clock ?aids by U.S. B-52 bombers-can hardly make things much worse...
Nietzsche said, long ago, "The wasteland grows." I am afraid it does...
REPORT FROM WASTELAND: AMERICA'S MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX by Senator William Proxmire. 248 pages. Praeger...
While the noisy conflict in Cambodia has seized the headlines, the quiet defoliation of South Viet Nam has become the focus of well-informed outrage. Individual scientists and the influential American Association for the Advancement of Science fear that a biological wasteland is in the making...