Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...income is approaching $8,000 a year?about $2,000 more than that of the country with the next highest standard of living. Sweden. The accouterments of affluence are everywhere: Americans possess more than 60 million automobiles, 70 million television sets (10 million with color), $500 billion worth of common stock. At least two-thirds of U.S. families own their homes...
...insight into oppression and thus a special will or capacity to rid human affairs of oppression. I would argue in fact that this viewpoint is largely a political one which certain groups find serviceable in the contemporary conflict between Negro and white in American society. Indeed, it is a common fallacy to believe that what is momentarily politically serviceable is ipso facto intellectually virtuous. Even though I understand this viewpoint as held by black nationalists and am indeed compassionate toward it, my intellect rejects it. Like Mary McCarthy, I begin to smell a rat--metaphorically speaking--and feel compelled...
...Ravel, built, as it is, on the idea of the anti-dance dance. It has been made into a ballet despite the fact that its tantalizing rhythms and harmonies are meant to make the listener (or listener-dancer) trip over his own expectations. Stravinsky has built it from common raw materials--the same square meters and phrases which Ravel has used and only slightly modified. But Stravinsky has fractured them into suggestive fragments and then has rewelded them into eccentric patterns that are almost frightening (even to performers) in their ability to resist predictability...
...Mailer always returns to himself. With an "egotism of curious disproportions," he catalogues his breakfast menus, his cures for the common cancers, even the virtues of each of his four wives. Sometimes he is the little boy full of comic-strip fantasies about riding around in a red helicopter, taking on the whole might of the U.S. Air Force and of "corporation-land" by shooting paint at the enemy choppers. At other times he fancies himself an exiled princeling (though from what country defies the imagination...
Meanwhile, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, sponsor of the campaign, spoke at a $100-a-plate luncheon (chicken) in his honor at Northeastern University. After the luncheon there was a rally to kick off the Northeastern Caravan of the campaign at the Boston Common...