Word: credos
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...Great and revolutionary things are coming about in America today prompted by youth's impatience, but nonetheless implemented by mature men who have something going for them-life experience. But the tender balance can be destroyed by even a noisy minority, whose credo is destruction for kicks rather than maturity gained through the creation of a family and doing one's "thing" for the betterment of society as a whole...
...first the commissions' tactics were cautious, involving in-plant petitioning agitation and brief work stoppages. But as the movement grew, it acquired the support of students, churchmen, and political groups ranging from liberal Monarchists to the Communist Party . Non- violence remains its credo, but the threat of more audacious and aggressive action is always there. Some plant executives leaving the factory parking lot at day's end now prudently check to be sure that their brake-fluid lines have not been cut or their tires slashed. On May Day, the Workers' Commissions turned out such a huge...
Nevertheless, Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts is an impressive collection by one of the U.S.'s most stylish and original satirists. Indeed, Barthelme tucks into these stories his own credo and best definition. "Fragments are the only forms I trust," says one fractured soul. And elsewhere: "Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole...
...release the pent-up yelps of the sons and daughters of the affluent society. A song like Ain't Got No ("Ain't got no class,/Ain't got no mother,/Ain't got no father,/Ain't got no culture") telegraphs the credo of the self-proclaimed have-nots of the '60s. Satire with a playful nip makes a treat of an air-pollution ditty ("Welcome-sulfur dioxide,/Hello-carbon monoxide,/The air, the air is everywhere"). The dance numbers are nimble but not al ways fluent, with the cast sometimes thundering about like...
Myopic Eye. The danger of such a credo, of course, is that the camera gives a distorted view that no amount of voice narration can dispel. A few hours after the King assassination, one Manhattan station showed a film jump ing with sirens, flashing lights and wrestling figures, which made it seem as if Times Square was a battleground. Lost in the scuffle was the announcer's voice-over saying that the damage consisted of two broken windows...