Word: womb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exemplified by their tantrums when opposed. The shouted obscenities, breaking of windows and burning of buildings are the acts of spoiled, irresponsible juveniles who have contributed nothing to society. Most have been fed, clothed and denied practically nothing during this affluent period. Many have yet to escape from the womb of the university where they are often indoctrinated by a small group of frustrated teachers who could not compete outside their ivory towers, and so pass on their warped revolutionary ideas to these young people...
...Restrained motion produces only a soothing, rippling reaction, but more active movements heighten the response. "You can't fight the water," says Hall, "you have to go with it." Several acquaintances who have tested the water bed for Hall have equated their sensations with returning to the womb. In fact, Hall solemnly says, it has been suggested that the invention be called the "Bedwomb." So far, he has resisted the idea...
...comprchensive and everyone I've read, really, except a tiny little article by Alain Robbe-Grillet, everyone tries to take a slice of the pic and say. "this is Beckett." Ruby Kahn interprets Endgame from a religious point of view, somebody clse says it takes place inside a womb, another says it's the beginning. I find myself enraged cach time I see one of these interpretations as a sort of umbrella that it has to go under...
...became Leninists viewed the revolution as something only barely beyond their grasp: a ship at sea whose mast is vaguely visible from the shore, the sun whose morning rays begin to curl alluringly over an eastern mountaintop, a child about to be born nestled anxiously in its mother's womb...
...Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, "it is the black Americans and other minorities for whom the 'system' works least well." Among blacks, the poor are a majority, and for them inadequate health care-or none-is a womb-to-tomb reality. They suffer a hugely disproportionate share of disease and premature mortality...