Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ADRIFT IN SOHO (229 pp.]-Colin Wilson-Houqhfon Mifflin...
...name has never had a very clear notion of what it was about, except at the very beginning. In those days, everyone knew that the business of any college was to rear Puritan divines. This purposeful age vanished, however with the Unitarian Coup, and ever since Harvard has been adrift on a secular sea, stirred vaguely, as great corporate bodies are, by forgotten impression and dim, ancient impulses from its past, like parietal regulations...
...pleasure pots of southern Italy. But all is not pleasure in the parasite's paradise. Philip (Maurice Ronet) uses Tom (Alain Delon) to run small errands, keeps a firm grip on the purse strings, taunts him with his poverty, and one day, just for kicks, sets him adrift in a dinghy on the open sea. Rescued on the verge of sunstroke, Tom puts his vicious little mind to work on a vicious little scheme to get rid of Philip but still hang on to his meal ticket...
...heavy-handedness, and by John Huston's dull direction. Miss Monroe's final question, for instance, asks, "How do you find your way back in the dark?" Now this question is subtle; it is the very one that Miller is posing for an America which he considers adrift; and he has already shown that he wants this country to follow the star of self-respect. But then, right at the conclusion, he flashes the stars right onto the screen, tucks Marilyn's head onto Gable's shoulder, and closes with a picture of Love in the Planetarium. The point...
...trouble came from residents of the local town of Dunoon, who were looking forward to a boost to business from free-spending U.S. sailors. One night a band of about 16 Scots seized the pacifist ringleader, Lawrence Otter, 22, snipped off his four-inch beard and cut his boats adrift. "We don't like you foreigners coming in here causing trouble," they said...