Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ONLY thing safe to say about SDS these days is that none of its variations has much in common with the SDS that drafted the "Port Haron Statement" in 1962. That was a group of disaffected students and intellectuals, alienated both from the American dream and the pedantic Old Left squabbles their parents had engaged in thirty years before. Led by Tom Hayden and Al Haber, these children of Hiroshima and Coca-Cola nurtured on Paul Goodman hoped to forge a "New Left" that would revive radical politics after the critical somnolence of the fifties...
...student power gave way to draft resistance and anti-war marches. Of course the transition was not so abrupt-at first students were against the War because the Vietnamese should have the right to control the decisions that affect them. But gradually a more coherent and unsettling analysis of American politics emerged...
...Crimson has sharpened greatly during the past week. Ordway. a two-year veteran at scrumhalf. will be passing to deceptive Mario Small at fly. and Greg Sandomisrsky will team with Verdi DiSesa at the wing three-quarters. Jamie Plunkett and Bucky Hayes will play on the wings. and All-American Joe Daly will be at fallback...
...course, Robert Downey is insane. He has had the distinction of being kicked out of four schools, his house, the U.S. Army, and a waiter's job at Howard Johnson's (He yelled back orders like "veal parmegian, hold the veal."). He is the all-American guy gone wrong. He is nuts. He is also right...
...were to steal from any filmmaker, Downey would take from Preston Sturges, the American director whose Sullivan's Travels and Hail, the Conquering Hero are full of the kind of zaniness that abounds in Swope . Other favorite movies of Downey's are Varda's Le Bouheur, Losey's Servant, Titicut Follies, Citizen Kane, the Marx Brothers/Sam Wood's Night at the Opera, Kazan's On the Waterfront, Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes, and Truffaut's Jules...