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...Bathroom (Viking), a newly updated and expanded version of an urbane study he published in 1966, Kira argues that the standard bathroom is uncomfortable, unsanitary and unsafe. The average 5-ft. by 7-ft. model is badly lit and ventilated; it seldom provides adequate storage and counter space for all the tubes, jars, bottles, blades, brushes and electrical appliances that have become the indispensable artifacts of ablution. Clearly, if cleanliness is next to godliness, it is also next to impossible in bathrooms that lack "facilities for perineal hygiene," meaning bidets. Moreover, some 275,000 people in the U.S. are injured...
...example, HEW tends to view informed consent--the concept that, before participating, subjects should clearly understand both the risks of a study and their right to withdraw from it at any time-- as the keystone of regulation. But at Harvard, according to Pattullo, informed consent forms are "seldom required...
...Downward mobility" seldom occurs voluntarily now nationwide. A "subliminal panic" shot through the middle classes after Kent State, and again when thermostats dropped and gas lines formed in the early morning darkness; today many students are unapologetically out for themselves alone. Especially telling are the rise of guru- and pseudo-liberation fads in the wake of the earlier protest's defeat, and of "decadence" at schools like Yale, where leaves of absence are at an all-time low; they signal most vividly a spiralling-off of individuals into private worlds within a corporate universe...
...sailing over them on a self-important little ship piloted by proud matrons going nowhere with a great show of dignity, dragging the water for warmth with elegant fishnets. We are the crew, and now and then we jump over the side, but only to repair the nets, seldom to swim. Our boat belongs to a fleet which still fancies it controls the ocean, but our nets are the old liberal language and theories, which do not catch what we need now to grow; they certainly don't help us to recognize a pervasive ruin which has come quietly down...
...material reward, only that scent of tragedy which always attends the decision to find out the truth about oneself, whatever the cost. But we are not so tone-deaf to the classics, I hope, as to have forgotten that in tragedy there is real life of a kind we seldom see at Harvard...