Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WAITING FOR GODOT is about immobility. Vladimir and Estragon sit in a place which is essentally nowhere; they entertain or bore one another; they sit. Like the street people who haunt the Square because there's no place for them to go, Vladimir and Estragon have internalized inevitability of inactivity. "Nothing to be done," when incanted as often as a mantra, can be cerily comforting. The dilemma of two tramps, waiting for a man who will not come, is our dilemma, too. And we remain waiting because the possibility of meaning, or of reason, or of order, is so seductive...
Despite its firmness in refusing to entertain such protests, the house instructed the A.M.A.'s board of trustees to study two conciliatory proposals: to set up a special committee to hear consumers' complaints and to organize a council representing various ethnic groups...
Pusey said that "the idea of some people-that the University is a servile slave of a rotten society-is such a deep untruth that I don't see how anyone coming to Harvard can entertain such ideas." Referring to the leaders of the April 1969 University Hall takeover, he said, "In their starry-eyed view, they think they are leading a revolution in America. They're trying to radicalize all the people. This small group of people has lived in a world of fantasy. I don't think I can reason with these people...
...other solution is for the CRR to refuse to entertain charges against most of the obstructive demonstrations unless there are instances of physical injury. Such a policy would, of course, require much more use of student opinion to curtail demonstrations. When one CRR member heard this suggestion, his main concern was "Why nothing would be done if someone tried obstructing my classes...
...remains to be seen how the committee will treat this evidence. But for the committee to entertain seriously the sort of charge that implicates individuals with responsibility for group actions is an important and serious precedent...