Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goodman, who is in town for a concert at Symphony Hall tonight, apparently became something of an expert on Soviet life during his six-week tour of Russia this spring. He dealt easily with questions about Soviet consumer goods ("There aren't many"), security ("I'm sure our hotel room was bugged"), and food ("Don't go there on a gourmet tour"). But he sidestepped a question about whether Russians "are learning to think for themselves." "I don't know," he said...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is the best: but not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic it may sometimes be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
...hammered furiously at the deadening smugness of their society. It was a time when many of their countrymen were groping for a new sense of purpose and national identity. "Nobody thinks, nobody cares," cried Jimmy Porter, the non-hero of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. "There aren't any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off, it'll just be for the Brave New-nothing-very-much-thank...
Physically, he stays at a trim 175 pounds. He churns twice daily through the White House swimming pool without any sign of back twinges; he races through long processions of visitors without weariness, and occasionally even complains that there aren't more...
...apparently never afflict Toralf Engan, 26, a brown-haired, slightly built sporting-goods salesman from Trondheim. Norway. Engan has been skiing since he was three, jumping since he was seven, and outjumping almost everyone for nearly a decade. "When I jump." he says. "I feel like a bird. Birds aren't afraid to fly. Why should...