Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acknowledged that some of us would take our place among those authors who had found their way into the Centennial Anthology. Occasionally, there were muffled complaints that no one read The Advocate, or even knew what it was; but this seemed to plague no one, nor had it probably ever. Literature was something to be administered, like medicine, in small, unpleasant doses. Even then, we would periodically receive poems from Vermont or Iowa, but The Advocate was a magazine written by its editors and for them. It was always the same script, with only the scruple of variation...
There was definitely an aura of Woodstock over the vast and not-so-silent majority of the crowd. People were more willing than ever before to help each other out. And all this was in contrast to the up-tightness and lack of humanity shown by the government and police. The point is, we showed the government up for what it is by not falling for its tactics or being drawn into its game of violence, but rather by showing that men can work together without coercion, and there is an alternative to violence. Lenin thought that you could...
...political allegiance, being too alienated to trust the liberals and not mad enough to join the Weathermen. As for the radicals, what leadership did they offer? A true radical. I've always held, can hardly ever be a leader. Radicals were made to sit in the back room of cheap cafes, debating ideology. That fantasy appealed to me, but even that had become impossible...
...once. He and his wife were rushing out of a theatre into Shubert Alley in New York, while I stood in the shadows, waiting for a friend. Although I did not recognize him at first, he immediately attracted my attention. He was the fastest moving old man I had ever seen. He practically dragged his wife behind him as he zoomed towards 45th Street. His shoulders bobbed up and down: his cigarette slid from one corner of his month to the other: his eyes darted in every possible direction. A strange guy this Wilder. Who is he and what does...
Wilder just doesn't believe in anything or anybody. His movies are full of dishonest people, thieves and charlatans, cheats and frauds, phonies and liars of all types. In film after film, nobody ever actually is what he seems...