Word: aimlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard pays about $1 million for land behind Burr Hall; the Graduate School of Design will move there. Otto Preminger says he will make a movie about the "aimless rebellion and search for intense senory experience of today's college students." "We are not making a movie about Harvard or about Alpert and Leary," his screenwriter explains, "but the Harvard story is certainly relevant to our purposes." Harvard Faculty members urge that schoolchildren be taught to drink and that intra-uterine devices be supplied to young girls...
Most of the show's faults are minor. If Munger's blocking sometimes seems aimless, if Allman is a bit stiff and Popovich a little unsteady, the production washes over it all with a wave of unselfconscious exuberance. The audience has only to lean back and laugh...
...these poems, as in Grass's novels, irony comes tinged with terror, and terror reflects a tenderness for all things that live enshelled in illusion, controlled by forces they cannot control. At times he intones a still sad music of aimless modernity...
...even when Dr. James Fritz, a prominent heart surgeon, came in to report his two daughters missing in August 1965. In Tucson, a boom town with an unusually high proportion of transient residents, more than 50 runaway minors are reported each month. Propelled by the same aimless itch, unrestrained by permissive parents, hundreds of teenagers haunt the Speedway. They were easy bait for Smitty, who was older, more sophisticated and, as they said admiringly, "different." His foster parents, owners of a nursing home, had given him $300 a month since he was 16, and furnished him with his own cottage...
...November Advocate closes with an aimless apologia which shrilly proclaims that young writers exist in the world, admits they don't go to Harvard, and wishes they would get in touch with the Advocate. The editors complain that: (1) potential contributors would rather shoot for big money from national magazines than write for local audiences, and (2) talent, like nature, can't be forced -- no one can squeeze pieces out of writers when they're doing things like picketing the White House...