Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, how a nation so full of people shouting "Give a damn" and "full commitment" can accept this so calmly. I suggest that the American people start to give a damn about those men doing so for them, to the last full measure. Shape up, America, and mourn your dead. You owe them that, and so much, much more...
...commemmorated the event with something short of glorious exaltation. Instead, it published a two-art article by a young journalist with the pleasantly déjà-vu name of Tom Wolfe. The article was entitled "Tiny Mummies: The True Story of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead." And, as they say back in the New Yorker's 43rd Street office, it became the talk of the town...
...guard was quick to react. And so, in the case of the aforementioned Tom Wolfe, we offer a few character references. From Joseph Alsop, came the disclosure that Tom Wolfe was an agent of Ho Chi Minh and campus disorders. Simultaneously, Dwight MacDonald--one of the "walking dead" himself--saw affinities between Wolfe, Hitler, Joe McCarthy, and your run-of-the-mill kamikaze pilot. Finally, in an effort to eliminate superficial contradictions while injecting a needed sense of perspective, Walter Lippmann categorically declared: "Tom Wolfe...
...university president reacts to student unrest by calling in the police, and the police deal with the situation no-holds-barred. I have assured myself complacently that Harvard is too sensible, too enlightened to react like that. But yesterday I discovered that the spirit of Josiah Quincy is not dead by any means. Even a history-conscious institution like Harvard, with so much history to learn from, ends up behaving as vindictively as the most callow, raw land-grant college in the country...
THEATRES gather ghosts. In the best theatres, they collect at an alarming rate--not merely wisps of nostalgia, but the disembodied presences of those individuals, living and dead, who have there experienced moments of special intensity, whether feigned or actual. And such spirits are fully capable of interference with the ongoing business of putting on plays. Some months ago, I stood on the stage of Washington's scrubbed and refurbished Ford's theatre, and indulged myself in a rather banal reflection on the impossibility of playing comedy in the house where a hack Shakespearean once broke...