Word: felted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freaks is at a disadvantage because Browning apparently felt that for the movie to work, the Freaks needed our sympathy; so he took pains to present them as well-rounded, even conventional people. Plot is simply enough the story of two normal, albeit perverse, individuals who try to take advantage of the little people. Unnecessarily fearful our emotions will attach to the beautiful trapeze artist and her strongman lover, Browning keeps telling us how freaks are people like anyone else...
...amendments, forms of which are virtually certain to become law in a short time. (The NASA restrictions have already been enacted.) Harold Howe II, U.S. Commissioner of Education, has said that the measures set a "dangerous precedent." He and others, including President Johnson's science adviser, Donald Hornig, have felt that the restrictive amendments signal an intervention of Congress into college affairs...
Losing Relevance. Of course, some of it was biased. Since there was no question that the police were singling out reporters and photographers for rough treatment, it was hardly surprising that some of them felt more sympathy for the attacked than the attackers. And, in a way, Daley was right about the presence of TV cameras having an effect on what happened. As New York Magazine Writer Sophy Burnham pointed out last week, the presence of TV cameras and lights changes the mood and attitude of people before them, much as "a girl undressing is quite aware...
Young has kept his office doors open to potential student malcontents. Last fall, for example, he overheard a group of black students criticizing the university, promptly invited them in for a four-hour rehashing of what they felt was wrong. Partly as a result of the discussion, Young pushed through a student-organized course in Afro-American history. This fall the university is also admitting 100 promising but technically unqualified ghetto youths into a special program that will prepare them for normal academic study...
Judas Complex. As their numbers grow, former priests are approaching a new life in the secular world with an increasing confidence. In the past, priests who abandoned their vocations felt so disgraced that often they suffered for months and even years from a "Judas" complex-the feeling of having betrayed Christ. Things are more civilized now. Patrick Best, a Detroit priest who left last May and has gone back to school, boasts that "my congregation even gave me a couple of going-away parties." George Frein, a St. Louis priest who married an ex-nun in June, has been hired...