Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Virtually every liberal Democratic organization not already for Humphrey may ask some price for its support. The Americans for Democratic Action will meet this week to decide whether to endorse Hubert, and John Kenneth Galbraith boasts: "Only our people can elect him." But, he insists, "we aren't going to endorse the war. We aren't going to endorse the old foreign-policy priesthood that got us into this mess, and we aren't going to endorse the right of the Chicago police to beat up the youngsters who work for us. So everything depends on whether...
...girls had been pinched, legally. Said an aide to the Miami Beach police chief: "We have not had a single complaint, so their service must be satisfactory." Agnes Ash of Women's Wear Daily noted the plight of Ben Novack, owner of the Hotel Fontainebleau. "The Republicans aren't spending any money," he groused. "I'm not making a dime out of this convention." Outfitted in his "double-breasted blue flannel blazer, yachting cap and white duck pants," wrote Agnes Ash, "Novack continued to prowl the lobby, restlessly looking in vain for a big spender...
...much color and so many ideas explode so often and so well, that a happy and enthusiastic opening-night audience quickly succumbed to the magic. And, when all ended, it was I suspect the magic that those people remembered, not exactly the play they had seen performed. Verse plays aren't noted for evoking mass gut reactions. The ambitious and verbally complex Mayer-Babe adaptation gets a little lost in the tempest nightly at Agassiz, and that's not to say that the play is weaker than its dazzling production. A Tim Mayer and (to a lesser extent) a Thom...
...Cokes and talking about going across the tracks to go nigger knocking." At 18, she escaped to Los Angeles with her parents' dubious blessing and became a beatnik. Not a hippie. Janis explains the difference carefully. Hippies believe the world could be a better place. "Beatniks believe things aren't going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time...
Harvard faculty committees aren't much more successful or efficient than less star-studded one. Attendance at committee meetings was often sparse. Few members were persistent enough to probe all possible angles of the question. Instead of growing out of long dialogues, the committee's report came from Beecher's drafts...