Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday, the players talked about the problem and decided that if the razzing affected their play, each member should cut his hair. Mike Janzeewski. Joe Stanislaw and Wayne Clapp got trimmed. George Yates will conform in a day or two and the rest of the long hairs will soon disappear...
...student of the phenomenon, criminals and psychotics began infiltrating the scene. They were readily accepted, as anyone can be who is willing to let his hair grow and don a few beads; they found, just as do runaway teenagers, that it is a good world in which they can disappear from law and society. "Hippiedom became a magnet for severely emotionally disturbed people," Yablonsky says...
Here he loses the variousness of tone and emphasis in Hawthorne and Griffith. He builds a drama of natural behavior in a specific social, rather than ideal, setting. Griffith's abstractions and idealization disappear and with them the need to assault the audience with quick cutting to put across the characters' emotions. A much more direct realization of his material characterizing Seastrom's work. makes this work simply a powerful rendition of a story of thwarted love...
What really sets Akenfield apart is a sot-in-its-ways, living connection with the rural English past. With vision unblurred by the nostalgia that so often distorts literary renderings of bucolic yesterday, the inhabitants of Akenfield look back to a way of life only just starting to disappear and find it a world well lost. Leonard Thompson, for instance, is 71, a farm laborer from an old family of farm laborers. "Village people in Suffolk in my day," he says, "were worked to death. It literally happened. It is not a figure of speech." The "old ones," he adds...
...earlier days, she is still tough. "I think I'm feisty!" she agrees, "but people have just gotten used to me. Now that I've become like the Statue of Liberty or something. Now that I've come to an age where they think I might disappear-they're fond of me." At her insistence, the theater is kept at a bone-chilling 60° for rehearsals. Last week, noticing that almost everyone in the cast was sniffling, she arrived one morning with a box of sweaters. Dumping them in her dressing room, she announced that...