Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maggie Smith plays Hedda as a literally compulsive personality, icily aware and occasionally appalled by what she says and does, but helpless to stop herself. When she reaches out to pull the hair of her rival or burn the manuscript of the man she loves, her body lurches and twists in a jumble of conflicting drives to do the thing, not do it, and dissemble by doing something else. Her pale, strained face is a screen on which the shadow of one inner demon masters another, only to be mastered by a third. In keeping with the cinematically fluid rhythms...
...Your Dog. Focused on science, last week's results proved enlightening if not startling. The scientific facts known to most nine-year-olds, for instance, were limited to simple phenomena. More than four out of five knew that rocks are solid, that iron does not burn by ordinary means and that pines stay green all winter. Abstractions tended to baffle them: only one in four could pick out the definition for "scientific theory" from five choices...
...become symbols of something entirely different?" A Denver housewife, Mrs. Kitty Boyd, explains: "We have a flag in the closet, but I won't fly it right now, because right away I think: 'Republican, Nixon, war.' But please understand that if I dropped it or anything, I'd burn it as you're supposed to." Adds her husband Bill: "We've made the flag a sacred, spiritual kind of thing." Others are deeply unhappy about the furious ostentation or the denigration they see the flag enduring. One New York hardhat, Edward Polito, looked at the flag decals plastered...
...disparate group that includes Eldridge Cleaver as well as Neil Armstrong, Tom Hayden as well as Ron Ziegler, Susan Sontag as well as Rod McKuen, Ralph Nader as well as Van Cliburn. Like any generation, we contain contradictions and exceptions, including those, particularly among the blacks, who want to burn and bury the system. But the revolutionaries among us, political or cultural, are a minority; reform, not revolution, is our aim. As a generation, we are distinguished by our lack of anger. Circled by fury, we are the unfurious; surrounded by passion, we are the dispassionate. Most...
...challenges to face. Students who are spoiled in this way do not wish to work within any system, so they protest and expect what they demand to be handed to them on a silver platter. The colleges are in a sad state when they do not expel students who burn everything from flags to buildings, strike the classes and disrupt the learning process...