Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sound you need. Then he inspires you to have your own ideas." He approaches each student like one of the chess problems he is so good at, and he tailors each solution to individual talents and temperaments. And the students all agree that he is gentle and considerate beneath his seventy. "The most dangerous thing in a teacher," he says, "is dogma...
...University of Connecticut playing a game of bridge that was still going when I left on Wednesday morning. I found the bathroom, which had been cleared out for us. There was a huge female sex sign on the door with the words "Up Against the Wall Mother Yale" scrawled beneath it. I said goodnight to my student host (who left with his radio and alarm clock) and fell, exhausted, into...
...Broadway of Tarawa. A dance hall teems with devotees of the newly discovered twist. Outdoor movies attract audiences of hundreds each evening (10? to sit on the ground, 20? upstairs). But blockhouses and rusting gun barrels still pock the landscape, and laborers regularly unearth skeletons that have been buried beneath the sand for a quarter-century. It all came back, Sherrod reported-"the sweetly sickening smell of death given off by thousands of bodies rapidly rotting in the tropical sun, the sight of an island stripped of every one of its many thousands of coconut trees...
...black suits who had no function other than being more people, adding support to whatever the authorities said and subtracting courage from whatever impulses of defiance the dazed team members could muster. The one assigned to shunt us from room to room had just the faintest suggestion of eyes beneath foot-thick glasses with huge black plastic frames. The curl of his lips when he yanked Dave Gordon half-dressed from the dressing room for the "dress rehearsal" was enough to grow boils on your heart. "Every minute is costing us money," he said on the way through the labyrinthine...
...Head. After a well-conceived opening sequence, its humor descends well beneath that of The Monkees' TV show, despite the implications of one of the most calculated publicity campaigns in recent memory. The quartet have mercifully honored us with only five songs, indistinguishable from one another with the exception of The Porpoise Song which has been on the radio for 41/2 months. The director plainly aspires to TV commercials and thinks he's got a line on how to be Richard Lester. He's mistaken. The film's distinguishing trait is its unbelievable paranoia: the plotless action has The Monkees...