Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World, Democracy v. enslavement, "people's paradise" v. "capitalist imperialism," but the intelligentsia and oppressed against the worldwide Establishment, liberty and freedom v. suppression. The differences between the Soviet's suppression of literature and "normalization" of Czechoslovakia, Peking's Cultural Revolution, and the Wallace-Nixon-Daley concept of law and order are very slight. Their purposes are the same: the suppression of dissent and meaningful dialogue, and the expunging of opposition...
...camera, Laugh-In is an extension of the purposeful chaos seen on screen. On any single day, ten or more shows are churning towards completion. The process begins with a "concept meeting," attended by Rowan and Martin, Schlatter, some of the show's 14 writers and key production personnel. The group may decide to do a satire on the machine age (aired last week) or the fourth estate (the concept this week). The writers are then led back to their cages. Later, the various elements-a silly dance, a special skit, cameo spots-are entered into the growing script...
That is exactly why many artists find the concept so irresistible. Dennis Oppenheim displays a photograph of a giant nebula made out of aluminum chips that he sprinkled on a field out side New Haven, Conn. Michael Heizer shows a photograph of five holes he dug in the Black Rock desert in Nevada. Robert Smithson exhibits his Non-Site, five trapezoidal woodbins filled with chunks of ore, plus an aerial photograph of the mines in Franklin, N.J., whence they came. This is meant to allow the viewer to contemplate the fact that "140 minerals" are found in the earth...
...does," he continued, "the hardcore national interest--survival of the nation in a cruel world through the maintenance of adequate deterrent strength--will be seriously jeopardized." Pell said that he hoped "that the ROTC concept will be fostered and enhanced on our college campuses rather than derogated and reduced to the level of an extracurricular college game...
...opening paragraph of their constitution defines the anarchists' reason for being as follows: "By nature man is a mythic designer, a shaper of energy. He molds the world after his imagination, because he is bound by no particular concept of his own potential. But throughout history man has been tricked into ignoring this power...