Word: calls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrators then raised the volume of their chanting and Cox asked one of the students in the class to call the University police. Before the student could race' in any way, however, the group left...
...currently writing a short critical work on the theories of Marshall McLuhan. " I'm not sure whether you can call McLuhan's ideas theories," he said. "His ideas are too contused, vague, and self-contradictory. Maybe that's why they're so popular...
...they knew Charlie knew. Charlie and his friends had listened to "Helter Skelter" with headphones for months until they could hear, quite distinctly below the sounds of the instruments and the singing, the Beatles in speaking voices saying, "Charlie, can you hear us? Charlie can you hear us? Call us in London. Call us in London." Charlie had called London and the Beatles had refused to accept the call. Still, their faith was unbroken...
...secondary characters who in 1922 had so much dignity have become functionaries who receive their orders by telephone. As Lang suggests by crosscutting Mabuse's and Lohmann's organizations at work, it hardly matters whom the call comes from. These men simply work for someone else. They are small; they try through obedience to keep their jobs, their security. "He [man] places a high value on his individual life," says Mabuse. "He even regards himself as an individual, with free will...
Some people call us obsessive. We are. The elements of our oppression, the invisible bars on our cages, are everywhere, and there is no escape. But the obsessive, uncompromising exposure of the oppression is our way of heading toward liberation. And that is what we want...