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...drive is in part an outgrowth of the women's movement. A year ago, for example, the Med School organizing committee was, with much the same membership, the Medical Area Women's Group. "Women have risen in their own self-esteem and are no longer willing to be paid shit wages and treated like garbage," Lynn Demler, a Med School Secretary and organizer, said last month...
Anyway, the preppie's theory ate shit. It went something like this: Unable to admit his limitations, he had constructed this paranoid world, where administrators and professors conspired to get him. Enough disappointments occurred to feed his fear; in a very real sense the system provided millions of opportunities for people bent on destroying other people. The preppie said that his paranoia made it possible for him to accept failure because in his world, failure was not his fault...
...Tarnopol's account definitely has the chamberpot stench. He tells how, in an uncontrollable fit of anger, he literally beat the shit out of his wife. When he learned how she had tricked him into marrying her by faking a pregnancy test--she bought a pregnant woman's urine on the street--he went into a frenzy and ended up inexplicably donning some of his wife's underwear. All of this--even if safely banished to a past behind Tarnopol telling how he told Spielvogel about it--still leaves an impression of twisted relationships and crude impulses in conflict that...
...country's fucked up. But the firemen, you actually see them produce. You see them put out a fire. You see them come out with babies in their hands. You see them give mouth-to-mouth when a guy's dying. You can't get around that shit. That's real. To me, that's what I want...
...worked in a bank. You know, it's just paper. It's not real. Nine to five and it's shit. You're lookin' at numbers. But I can look back and say, 'I helped put out a fire. I helped save somebody.' It shows something I did on this earth...