Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd was unable to release its frustration in the role of spectator. Those leaving the Garden seemed to need to act out their aggression. The competition they had just witnessed in the arena served as a model rather than a release for their own competitiveness...
First-year student Robert D. O'Connell, a member of the group which met with Bok, said yesterday, "Because the Faculty already has a lot of things under consideration it is doubly important that they act on our requests. That could do away with the suspicion in the student body that the Faculty is stalling...
...virtually every museum and collector in the country. With his fellows, De Kooning hung out in grimy Greenwich Village cafeterias, endlessly debating the new esthetic and just as endlessly revising the canvases in his studio. De Kooning sought to capture on canvas the continuing essence of the creative act of painting itself. To do this, he jettisoned polished finish in favor of apparently raw brush strokes, which in reality were painstakingly executed and frequently reworked. On another level, he strove to transmute biomorphic forms into a single unending composition...
...growing impact of the conglomerates has been so great that even conservative businessmen, who usually complain about too much federal interference, are pleading for Government help in combatting their onslaught. The chances are that they will get it; the Government has lately begun to act as if "conglomeritis" is a virulent disease. Half a dozen agencies?including the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission?have begun investigations of the phenomenon. They are worried that the takeover companies may be creating too much concentration of economic power, that some of them have unsound financing...
...PROGRAM notes accompanying the two one-act plays that opened at the Loeb last night sounded forbiddingly self-serious. "Because of certain ideological predilections on the part of the director," one section read, "much of the technical work not listed was done by the cast." My god, I thought, if they're all willing to do that much work, what will they expect from an audience? At worst they would have us changing sets, at best, we might be forced into some sort of soul-baring dialectic. Feeling vaguely exhausted before the plays began, I just wanted to be left...