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...Perhaps you have not felt the pressures of recession, regression and repression, or borne the weight of inflation, intimidation and inaction," Kennedy said. "If so, then the womb of Mother Harvard is even thicker than I thought...
...nurses as well as patients, is that a fetus will be born alive. Claims by anti-abortion groups that doctors routinely throw "screaming, wriggling bundles of humanity" into garbage cans are unfounded. But despite laws banning abortions after the 24th week, well before a fetus can survive outside the womb, "live births" do occur. The reason, often, is that the date of conception has been miscalculated or misstated by the woman. At least 40 fetuses have reportedly been born "alive" in New York. All died within hours, despite doctors' efforts to maintain life...
...entirely possible that the first words of the first psychiatrist were "Return to the womb." That classic concept a search for primal security-is precisely what French Designer Claude Vidili had in mind when he came up with the idea for his "Isolation Sphere," a tough and thick polyester shell almost six feet in diameter that is soundproof and guarantees privacy even in the midst of chaos. To retreat from the world, it is necessary only to step inside and close the door...
...BOOK is divided into four parts- Body. Soul, Love and Hate -and a totally inadequate coda: Revolution. Body ("Gender," "Bones," "Curves," "Hair," "Sex," "The Wicked Womb")-is the best section of the four. In it Greer levels some good criticism at those propounding the myth of the vaginal orgasm. "The implication that there is a statistically ideal fuck which will always result in satisfaction if the right procedures are followed is depressing and misleading.... Real satisfaction is not enshrined in a tiny cluster of nerves but in the sexual involvement of the whole person." Recent emotionless emphasis on the clitoral...
...After reading your article on "The New Room: No Furniture" [April 26], I believe the time is not too distant when whole populations will be living in "liberating cubes," which to me smacks of re-entry into the womb, and a sterile one at that. How sad that man has literally progressed himself back into a cavelike dwelling. Happily, plastic and light bulbs have replaced rock and sunlight-to the everlasting joy of gnomes, no doubt...