Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Antonioni is intensely serious about life and about art. His new film, Blow-Up, deals with the difficulty of commitment to a worthwhile life through art. Antonioni's fashion photographer hero, a 25-year-old dissipated cherub brilliantly played by David Hemmings, has learned how to ride the crest of the mod culture wave; he got rich quick, drives a Rolls, and takes sex and marijuana with the casual detachment that marks him and his kind. He seems, as Time describes, "a little fungus that is apt to grow in a decaying society...
...article was a blow to the Howard initiative, but not yet a deadly one. Roy Wilkins wrote to say he had not known the NAACP was reprinting it: "My opinion of the Ryan piece and of similiar reasoning is well known to my immediate associate here....It is a silly and sinister distortion to classify as racist this inevitable discussion of a recognized phase of our so-called race problem." Wilkins's attitude was shared by other Negro leaders. During the summer, Whitney Young, Jr. several times noted, properly, that he had for years been writing about just such questions...
...real blow was Watts. It threw the civil-rights movement entirely off balance. Until then, theirs had been the aggrieved, the just, the righteous cause. In the South and old game had been going on with a new rule, imperfectly understood by whites, that the first side to resort to violence--lost Now in the North the Negroes had resorted to violence, in a wild destructive explosion that shattered, probably forever, the image of nonviolent suffering. And within hours of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. The same new rule applied. The civil-rights movement could not explain Watts...
...Marine Regiment. The scouts frequently enable the Marines to set ambushes, recently were instrumental in helping the Marines discover a secret meeting of regional Viet Cong leaders. In a fierce battle, the Marines killed 61, thus largely stripping the V.C. of their area leadership in one blow. For the first time, the Marines now control the night with their patrols and thus, as one Marine put it, "give the average peasant a chance to make love to his wife without the Viet Cong shooting...
...possible combination that could be put against them, but no one expects a combined, integrated offensive by all its neighbors right now. Though Israel is far mightier than it was a decade ago at Sinai, Premier Eshkol still vows to investigate every avenue of diplomacy before striking another punitive blow against terrorism. At home, Eshkol is burdened with an economic recession and the highest rate of unemployment (9%) in more than a decade. In the U.N., he has already been censured by the Security Council for Israel's raid on Samu in Jordan last November...