Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Thomas McMahon, McKay Professor of Applied Engineering and author of McKay's Bees, and his research assistant Peter Greene specialize in biomechanics, a newly invented scientific method which unites biology and engineering. Constructing synthetic models of limbs, eyes and other body parts, the pair attempt to solve medical problems by discovering, simply, what went wrong in the mechanics. They have already made headlines for their peculiar specialty: in 1977, they experimented with artificial legs to discover the ideal running ground and came up with the celebrated new track for Harvard's Indoor Tennis and Track Building. The track has both...
Folk Singer Joan Baez sang Oh Freedom. Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin led a rousing chorus of We Shall Overcome. Elie Wiesel, author of many books on the Holocaust, recited Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. Actress Liv Ullmann gave a pint of blood for Cambodian refugees...
...opens it, he pushes his way in, ties her up and rapes her-gently. That forced-sex fantasy, or something like it, is one of the most common sexual daydreams of American women. Masters and Johnson say it is second only to fantasizing about sex with a different partner. Author Nancy Friday, the diligent collector of female fantasies (My Secret Garden, Forbidden Flowers) says it is second to none...
...time Mowat seeks temporary shelter in a blasted hut, and shares his rum with a dying German who got there first, the author is disarmed of illusion and no longer fit to wage war. In a letter to an un named intimate, he writes, "I wish I could explain the desperate sense of isolation, of not belonging to my own past, of being adrift in some kind of alien space." It is the unresolved anger of a soldier whose arms, legs, eyes and genitals are constantly threatened with mutilation...
...question remains: What took Mowat 35 years to write and publish this book? In an "Anti-Epilogue" that he says was written only at the insistence of his publisher, the author hurriedly speaks of old agonies, the balm of forgetfulness, and of his conviction that all wars are futile and immoral. There is even the ritual reference to what Wilfred Owen called the old Lie: "Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori"- how sweet and beautiful it is to die for one's country...