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...heavy," mourns one male liberationist. "Like you gotta build a whole new way of seeing her and yourself. You have to fight so you don't slip back the way you used to be, because if you do, man, if you say just one word, then wow, bam, it's over. That's living terror, man." Other male liberationists display anxiety by complaining about the inhuman roles assigned to males by society. In Brother, a new Berkeley male-liberation newspaper, a man identified only as Paul writes: "We don't cry. We are machines...
Somehow, between all the landfalls, mini-histories are fitted in-asides about mutinies and scholarly lectures on navigation, on fishing, on map making, on sea chanteys ("Heisa, heisa, vorsa, vorsa, wow, wow," to quote one). The sea turns Morison into a lyric poet who sometimes applies looser moral standards to seamen than to shorebound sinners...
...same basic number that screws up almost everything that man attempts. The Uglies-greed, competition, false pride. . ." To combat the Uglies, Freund recommends self-discipline: "Don't try to get too big too fast, don't engage in competition for its own sake, dig what you're doing." Wow, man, self-discipline! Some trip...
Briggs hit the tin six times in the second game, twice after being tied at 12-12, and dropped the game. But Briggs won a close 15-13 third game with a hard rail shot that brought a "Wow" from Atwood. The sophomore ran away with the final game...
...Pavlov's bells in order to produce saliva. The Movement propagandist rings his chimes ("Fascist!" "Pig!" "Honky!" "Male chauvinist!") to produce spit. More stammer than grammar, as Dwight Macdonald put it, the counterculture makes inarticulateness an ideal, debasing words into clenched fists ("Right on!") and exclamation points ("Oh, wow!"). Semantic aphasia on the right, semantic aphasia on the left. Between the excesses of square and hip rhetoric the language is in the way of being torn apart...