Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adams House Drama Society came up with the most original idea of the year Friday. The members of the society sponsored a brief poetry reading (by William Alfred) and a reading of "Everyman" (by themselves) and called it "An Evening of Medieval Poetry...
...celebrates. To register his revulsion, he got together with James Baldwin (who was his old classmate in The Bronx's prestigious De Witt Clinton High School) to plan a work that would "expose the corruption in American life. I am fascinated by decadent faces." Baldwin's brief text is oddly irrelevant, obviously hasty, too often drawn on by his sheer flow of language into shrill overstatement: "No one is happy here." The 54 Avedon photographs are something else again: a chilling, engrossing display of ferocity...
During his brief career as an amateur politico Portlist has collected dozens of uncomplimentary labels. He has been called a demagogue, a Communist, and a scapegoat. His own view of himself is less sinister. "I'm a crank," he declares. "The far right doesn't have a monopoly...
...technique that bears strong resemblance to the Kennedy style of politicking. He moves about with incredible speed, always shaking hands, always smiling broadly, and never showing the irritation that most campaigners feel and many display. As he rides along in his car, he invariably stops at street corners for brief hand-shaking sessions, and he shouts greetings from his car window to cab drivers and motorcyclists who pull alongside...
...proclaim themselves loudly in many different ways. The shock wave smacks the ground hard, starting characteristic earth waves that may be detected by seismographs thousands of miles away. In the air the shock wave turns into a sound wave that weakens as it travels until it dwindles into a brief rise of barometric pressure. In its last weak form, the wave can cover thousands of miles before it becomes too faint for microbarographs to distinguish it from natural variations of atmospheric pressure. The U.S. undoubtedly had many seismographs and microbarographs stationed around China to be on the alert...