Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...birth control pill, he said, "has hurt us in the area of VD. The pill increases moisture in the vaginal track and changes the pH of the vaginal floor from acid, which is normal, to alkaline, which is abnormal. The gonorrhea organism thrives in an alkaline medium...
...they serve as a scaffolding over which the patient's own ear-canal skin grows to form new ear tissue. The operation does, however, substantially reduce hearing loss. Most eardrum-damaged patients have moderately severe impediments. In most cases, the implants have improved their hearing to within the normal range...
...force of a banal dream that has turned, without the dreamer's quite noticing, into a nightmare. The metaphor of cannibalism takes over until all the characters appear as predators. The only hope allowed Marian at the end: if she becomes a consumer again herself, life may appear "normal" to her once more...
Glacier's Edge. Nothing so simple will make life appear normal to her author. In her fourth published volume of poems, Procedures for Underground, Atwood compresses to an even more tactile intensity the panic that beats through her novel. Others may see evolution as a reasonably deserved survival of the fittest. Her gift, and her curse, is to see the universe as one living creature that survives only by devouring parts of itself. Even the cord of an electric typewriter can seem organic-a "hungry plug drinking a sinister transfusion...
...When I spoke with a Kent student on the telephone Thursday, my emotional reaction was that the students there are very lonely. They came back to school this fall hoping to lead normal lives after the terrible experiences of last spring. Then right away they had these indictments dumped on them...