Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when it comes to out-Heroding Herod, nothing can match the great millimeter mania. It is not enough that cigarette ads, which seem to be one endless round of jingle-jangle whoop-de-do by a babbling brook or out there in Marlboro Country, are among the more mindless on TV.* Now they are engaged in a dreary interior dialogue. In reply to Chesterfield's joshing boast that its 101s are "a silly millimeter longer," Winston Super Kings scoff: "It's not how long you make it." Right, says Pall Mall 100s. What counts is whether you're "longer...
...Left, he falls back on a semimystical vision of the world as town meeting, proposing an ideal society that stresses religion rather than politics. With his transcendental interpretation of history, his uncompromising rectitude, and his wobbly ambivalence in the face of actuality, Lynd seems like a 19th century Brook Farm Utopian who has wandered nobly but by mistake into the 20th century...
...many speakers warned that continued disorder and the use of violence are self-defeating tactics in seeking university reform. "The power of an impassioned minority to disrupt is great," Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach advised the Stony Brook campus of S.U.N.Y., "but not as great as the power of a determined majority to repress." Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York that "on balance, the world stands to gain from student protest," but he took issue with the New Left creed, which has inspired much of the campus disorder...
...MEADOW BROOK MUSIC FESTIVAL, Rochester, Mich., celebrates its fifth season with eight weeks of varied symphonic programs and name soloists, including two rare appearances by Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky (Aug. 17-18). Orchestra-in-residence is the Detroit Symphony under Sixten Ehrling. The American Ballet Theater dances for a week starting July...
Paul S. Berger; Richard L. Berkman; Alan D. Bersin; Todd W. Boli; James Brook; Edward M. Brown; John A. Buehrens; Peter H. Calkins; Alan R. Cohen; Terence R. Considine; Frank R. Curtis; Howard M. Cutler; Christopher C. Dahl; Edward A. Davenport; Thomas L. Dublin, Jacob S. Egan...