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...part upon whether the public sentiment mobilized last week will endure to force change, whether Americans will sustain their interest in the longer and duller tasks of cleaning up the land. Says George Wiley, director of the National Welfare Rights Association: "I hope this movement is not a fad, but the signs are not encouraging." Still, there are a few hopeful signs. A Harris poll published last week indicated that Americans, by a margin of 54% to 34%, are willing to pay more taxes to finance air-and water-pollution control. Three years ago, the public opposed such extra taxes...
...Japanese have a genius for embellishment-often to excess. This proclivity, which they have already demonstrated in commerce, manners and entertainment, was extended last weak to the recent Western fad of skyjacking. The seat-belt sign had just flashed off aboard Japanese Airlines' Flight 351 from Tokyo to Fukuoka when nine young men strategically stationed throughout the crowded aircraft suddenly sprang to their feet. At first some passengers thought that it was only some kind of show or trick. Then the youths pulled out daggers and short, curved samurai swords. Some of them shouted, "We are the Red Army...
...never-ending scramble for a rapid dollar, Wall Street speculators can be moved to frenzy by the vaguest rumor. Their response to every economic fad and fancy is almost a conditioned reflex. In the uranium boom that followed World War II, the magic words atomic and nuclear rang through brokers' offices with the authority of an inside tip. Just about any company that managed to get that magic into its name, or to pass the word that it had even a fringe involvement in the field, enjoyed a profitable play in the market. Since then, the speculative incantation...
Soil for the Future. Obviously, the James Joyce Memorial Liquid Theatre has more the air of group therapy than it does of legitimate theater. But it would be a mistake to dismiss it as some sort of peripheral fad. The true purpose of the avant-garde is to provide the soil in which future drama will grow. Aesthetic soil means shaping a mentality. For example, the Depression created the mentality of social consciousness, and out of that mentality sprang the social protest plays of the '30s and the Group Theater. The mentality of Freudian psychology prefigured Tennessee Williams...
...everyone just got hip- but it was such greasy hip." Someone mentioned hip New Jersey truck drivers, and he added. "It's wrong to think that way because everybody should be. Every body's got the right to be. But I really hate seeing it become a trend, a fad you know, like miniskirts. When these New Jersey truck drivers started giving you the peace sign- groovy, man -out of sight'- it just didn't seem right, like there was nobody left to fight...