Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among supper-club songbirds, the Act has become as ritualized as a liturgy, right down to the devotion "to all the wonderful people who made this performance possible." So the audience is exhorted to applaud Mom and manager, composer and choreographer, gag writer and special-material arranger, the second violins and the third husband-just about everyone, in fact, except the plastic surgeon...
...work over a dead man-if that is what he deserves from a history he malevolently affected? Surely the point is that the author of this filthy act of vampirism deserves the contempt not only of those who would speak no evil of the dead, but of those who applaud such lonely acts of disinterested heroism as were performed by the social philanthropist whose name once graced your masthead...
...mind the war or his privileged draft deferment) will jump for joy at the fact that he has lost the "security blanket" effect of his 2-S status, is naive and unrealistic. How can you expect a person with whom you already have difficulty talking about the war to applaud the abolition of 2-S as a victory of the student left over the Selective Service Board? It's unthinkable that someone who has been spoon-fed with the delusions and placebos of this system all his life is going to undergo some miraculous transformation and start believing...
There are exceptions. Most students applaud Chem 6, and those few in Chem 11 and 12 grumble about the teaching but are enthusiastic about its basic premises. Dissatisfaction appears to center around the large second-and third-year courses -- Chem...
...tomorrow night the 1966 campaign will be over and at least two men will be finished politically. Waiting, however, to take their places will be some of the members of the General Court, who next January will turn and face the center aisle and applaud the governor