Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 11, 1979

Transcript:

Mark: "...and in Washington today, the President tried to lay a trip on Congress. White House sources explained that his head has been in a weird place lately." We're back and still chatting with kellow's own Dr. Dan Asher! Dan' got a new book out entitled "Mellow-Speak," in which he claims to have reduced the entire English language to only 37 key words necessary for full human communication. Dan, I notice in perusing your list of key words that you haven't included any which have moral implications - words like "sacrifice" or "give," or "help". Man: Why should I get behind words like those, man? Mark: I dunno... in case of fire or something. Man: Hey, I hear you, Mark. But in that event, I'd simply create a space for dealing with the problem. Mark: Space? What do you mean, space? man: Space is where your head is at if it's in a good place. Space creates a context for impacting your environment. Mark: Can this space be shared? Man: SUre. If you can relate to where the other person is coming from. Mark: What if he's just in from Cleveland? Man: If that his trip, beautiful. Unless, of course, he started the fire.