Word: adrenaline
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According to the survey, adults aged 26 to 35 are rusty on book learning but show scientific awareness picked up from the press, TV and practical experience. Most were strongest on medical facts: 70% know that adrenalin is a stimulant to the heart, 79% that whooping cough cannot be inherited, 91% that chromosomes determine sex. Young adults did well in fact analysis and math calculations. But only 26% recalled that the periodic table shows the relationship of chemical elements, and a scant 3% correctly picked uranium-lead dating as an accurate method of determining the age of ancient rocks...
...confused, guilt-soaked reactions, about the grubby details of the drug culture, or at least that part of it involving amphetamines. Except for a spectacular denouement (Papa dropping Librium, son suffering amphetamine withdrawal, both jabbering Oedipal home truths as they cross Washington Square, drunk on drugs and adrenalin), the book is totally convincing. One emerges unnerved from Travers' nightmare. Seen through a screen of mind-blown local color, hell really seems to be located somewhere east of Second Avenue...
...youth of America is their oldest tradition," said Oscar Wilde. "It has been going on now for 300 years." The assumption that the U.S. is a young country has, in fact, been a national premise for hope and the future−an adrenalin charge of optimism no matter what the crisis. Now, suddenly, without even the mixed blessing of a transitional middle age, a question has been raised: Is America's youthful "experiment" all but finished...
...Keep in mind that the primary purpose of words is not to express meaning but to pump adrenalin. Use active, blood-tingling verbs like "smash" or "liberate." If anybody disagrees with you, call him imperialist, authoritarian or at least manipulator for the power elite...
...reconstructed 1910 Chicago, hungry for trouble. Ben treats each new experience as if he were staring down the well of life. One time he falls in and drowns. But if life is a cheat, death is a double-dealer. On a morgue slab, Ben is given a dose of Adrenalin by a quack. In an outrageous parody of the Lazarus scene dear to so many biblical spectacles, Ben rises, so full of life that he quivers like a tuning fork for hours...