Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primarily a struggle for public office, waged by almost any means necessary, smacks of the cartoons of Boss Tweed we viewed in those selfsame classes. And we feel comfortable with an ideal of a participatory political system which would have as one of its principal features the kind of endless discussions of political issues which students enjoy in their leisure moments...
...lays hands on human irrationality and violence for the same purpose. Fear of extinction, he suggests, combined with the frustrated lust for eternal life, underlies the disturbed behavior that threatens humanity with madness and self-destruction. Had men only "world enough and time," he argues, they could explore the endless varieties of love, work and play. The resulting fulfilled, relaxed race would be safe from itself once...
...both developed their own style for meeting Harvard's political crises this year. Both Kaplan and Glazier approached the changing political scene with a sense of practicality (i.e. business sense--witness the furniture) and few of the notions that in the past have doomed student government at Harvard to endless debates over whether girls should stay in the rooms legally or illegally after midnight...
Much of this was conscious baiting, but even more of it was an expression of frustration at endless stories and reports followed by little or no action. As LIFE's Jack Rosenthal noted, "The frustration is not so much with the press as with the public, which doesn't respond. There is a natural tendency to blame the messenger for failure to get the message across." Some reporters refused to be drawn into the arguments. "I refuse to bore you with my opinions," Bill Buckley remarked imperiously to one hostile audience. But the continual hostility brought out occasional...
...take the waste out of the wasteland," Thomas Tadlock, 28, spent two years and a patron's $10,000 to create his Archetron. The result is a studio-size console, with 46 knobs and controls and four screens, that scrambles the signals of standard programming to produce an endless flow of kaleidoscopic images. Both Siegel and Tadlock are working toward what Nam June Paik, 36, a Korean-born virtuoso of electronic sculpture, calls "the Silent TV Station, transmitting only beautiful 'mood art,' the TV version of Vivaldi...