Word: womb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still my first love. When I sit at the piano I feel back in the womb...
...vital factor in his ability to practice confidently and well. Health and medical care are as essential to the Negro's joining the mainstream of American life as are education and job opportunities. Indeed health may be more fundamental, and Negroes are sicker than whites from womb to tomb-their infant-mortality rate is double that of whites. A child can learn little, even in a vastly improved school system, if he is suffering -as are many Negroes in both North and South-from borderline malnutri tion, iron deficiency and anemia, as well as assorted infectious and parasitic diseases...
...Fortas himself is thinking of equipping his office with a computer console to tap the memory bank of social knowledge and data assembled by the Russell Sage Foundation, of which he is a trustee. More and more the courts "enter into everybody's life every day, from pre-womb to post-tomb," and a many-sided approach, using all the disciplines, could result in something more satisfactory than "the frustrations and agonies of undebatable principle in sharp conflict with undeniable fact...
...about hypocrisy and perhaps think too much of ourselves for having unveiled the forked tongue of the Establishment. We have, like each new batch of rebels, tried to tickle the testicles of society in order to shake something loose, inject a little jism, a hopeful seed into the metallic womb of America...
...life and gleaned the terrifying knowledge that he is "irredeemably mediocre." With an irascible wit and a fanged tongue, he spews out tirades of paranoia. A self-pitying child of rage and fear, he drowns his panic in alcohol. He courts oblivion in lust-the bed is his womb and his coffin. He wakes with jittery remorse to smell death's bad breath at dawn. On the self-accusing charge of having made his existence an obscenity, this anti-hero sits in a prisoner's dock watching his life pass like a funeral cortege...