Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carnival Revival. Before that oozy intervention, Resurrection City had begun to take on a unique, throbbing personality. Life in the compound reminded some of a revival meeting within a carnival within an army camp...
Bitter Dialogue. Solzhenitsyn's novel, set in the dark atmosphere of a terminal-cancer ward, explores the contrasting lives of the patients-a soldier who was imprisoned for many years in a labor camp, a field geologist who was stricken in young manhood, an aging bureaucrat who improved his lot in life by informing on friends and neighbors. The physical malignancies of the doomed are used by the author to symbolize life in post-Stalin Russia...
Square is square (11 in. by 11 in.) It is published in the enemy camp, as it were-Westwood Village, which is also the address of the University of California in Los Angeles. The magazine tries to fight for the right with the New Left's own tactics; despite its name, its appearance is hip, its art psychedelic. Only the message is different: against free love and drugs, for the draft and the war in Viet Nam. One article draws a parallel between the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 and the current alliance of New Leftists and black militants...
...follow up their camp version of Dr. Faustus (TIME, Feb. 11, 1966), Boom! is their incredibly retitled camp version of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. If possible, it is worse. Faustus at least had Marlowe's mighty lines, but Milk Train was not even good Williams (it flopped on Broadway in two different versions...
...John Spiegel, director of Brandeis University's Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence, approached black militancy from the opposite camp. Many municipal leaders, he reported, still deny that there is a racial problem in their respective cities. "If trouble comes, they blame it on punks, outsiders and Communists rather than on white racism and other injustices." Another group of city officials, said Dr. Spiegel, act as if they understand the problem, speak expansively about the steps they are taking, but in reality do little or nothing constructive. Spiegel calls this "the Jerry Cavanagh Phenomenon." Detroit, where Cavanagh...