Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAIR. While fresher than the rest of the season's stale musicals, this tribal-rock extravaganza seems a decidedly dated and slightly square rendition of hippiedom. Loosely directed by Tom O'Horgan, Hair is dedicated to the propositions that noise equals singing, energy equals style, and bad taste equals imaginativeness...
Such arguments are frequently irrelevant to the dissenter. He answers that law does not always provide justice; that there are good and bad laws, and that the governed sometimes detect the difference before their governors. Before his unhappy resignation as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, John Gardner observed: "Once the grip of tradition or apathy or oppression has been broken and people can hope for a better life, their aspirations soar. But the institutions that must satisfy these aspirations change at the same old glacial speed...
...chief lieutenants for more than a decade, Abernathy has staked out a claim as custodian of the dream. Whether that claim will go unchallenged remains to be seen. Far less cerebral than his predecessor, he has shown an unhappy tendency to make inept remarks and to accept bad advice from ultramilitant S.C.L.C. officials whom King managed to keep in line...
...factor could explain France's eruption. The workers certainly did not go to the barricades because of censorship, the young did not rebel because of bad art or poor music. But all these things taken together caused the new mood in France, a crisis of attitudes. Ultimately what happened was the result of simply having too much De Gaulle. "Without me, this country wouldn't be anything," he once said. "Without me, it would all have collapsed. For years, I've carried France on my shoulders." No nation with any pretense to vitality can indefinitely be carried on the shoulders...
...Leonard did what he could to improve the driver to car ratio by stuffing last year's car into the first-turn wall during a test run. As a reward Granatelli hired him to drive number 60, which had originally been assigned to Mike Spence. It wasn't a bad move. When the first day of qualifying ended, Leonard held the pole position...