Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to make her over," Cindy, executive director of Miss California, observes. But the relentless aim of the group is to help Christine acquire what the judges' guide describes as "the necessary beauty and wholesomeness to appeal to the American public." The variables considered include talent, hair, makeup, gowns, poise and walk, and conversation. The Betamax affirms that where talent is concerned, Christine should have the contest pretty well sewed up. Her rendering of Bartok's Hungarian Peasant Songs on the flute is professional, pure and austere when compared with the frothier offerings of other contestants...
...game who the winners and losers will be. Then the losers play badly and have a miserable time." But O'Connell and the foundation want to restructure these time-honored sports activities so that everyone plays and no one loses. In a version of "new volleyball," the aim is to keep the ball from hitting the ground rather than to score points by zinging it at the feet of opponents across the net. Says Jeff McKay, a San Francisco teacher and baseball coach who subscribes to the foundation's theory of no winners or losers: "If the game...
...fact, the "laid back" counterculture opposition to striving seems central to no-win sports. The foundation's John O'Connell insists that the aim is not to win but to catch "the flow." And what is the flow? "Being so involved you lose track of time," he says. "Feeling light, as if in love." Which, as everybody knows, is usually a no-win game...
Both the Hayden/Fonda and the John Birch camps aim to produce future leaders of the Movement (left or right), not docile students. Says Hayden: "There is a real clash between what they pick up in the camp and what they go back to." For the Birchers, what their children learn at camp provides a corrective to the subversive ideas taught in school. "The kids are indoctrinated with statism in the public schools," claims Karen Fiddament, whose daughter attended a Birch Society camp this summer. "The camps indoctrinate them with another point of view...
...classmates' autographed cliches in the margins. The book is so rich in social detail that it brings a whole fictional town, Dacron, Ohio, to life. The new Sunday Newspaper Parody is the Dacron Republican-Democrat (slogan: One of America's Newspapers). The two parodies take aim at small-town American life in the '70's with the same spirit, and occasionally some of the pathos, of Sinclair Lewis and Sherwood Anderson...