Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The new course could escape the difficulties presented by Hum 4's large (83 members) and unwieldy enrollment, Seltzer pointed out. "Everyone in the course could participate in the production connected with it," he said. "And don't mean by distributing posters."
With all this in mind it is possible to understand what Leary means when he says that psychedelics are not addictive and therefore less dangerous than alcohol, television, and higher education, all of which trap their true believers for a lifetime. Alcoholics, tube-boobs, and academicians do the same things...
Other fans find a reassuring permanence in the ever familiar opera repertory. Still others are attracted because in a mechanized, computerized world, opera offers escape into a realm of heroism-which is another way of saying individualism. Perhaps they come because, in the words of Langdon Van Norden, president of...
What nobody will question is that Nazi SS men were often savage sadists, that Jewish survivors of Buchenwald endured incredible torments, and that a bunch of high-ranking political hostages bottled up in a Bavarian castle keep and threatened with execution would try very hard to escape their German jailers...
But Godard's point will probably escape his American audience. For the city of Alphaville is not just any city of the future; it is Paris, perverted by Americanization, the city of light turned fluorescent. A mad scientist from New York, Dr. Von Braun, has imposed the computer on the...