Word: ferments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...element, but conceives of such a coalition as the only real basis around which a movement can be built. Again, it is unfortunate that the reporter finds this "conventional." The question is, as Bayard Rustin (who will speak tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall) emphasizes, what is the alternative? Local ferment and community organization, in the style of SDS or black power militants, are an important and invigorating force for change. But they are only a complement, not a substitute, for a political coalition that can act on a Federal level to bring the massive economic program required for significant social...
Soup-Can Glasses. That the scene is lively, Tony Smith certainly agrees. While no pop art collector himself, he still thinks its cheerful acceptance has added yeast to the ferment. "It has helped art move from a private scene to a public scene," he points out. "In an odd way, the people who supported pop contributed to this by living public lives through mass media. We got to see their collections in magazines; they were talked about in the press, on TV. Their lives became public, and it made the general public much more aware of art and artists...
Adding to the ferment, two pieces sharply disagree. Stanley Kauffmann explains how he got jobbed by the New York Times for trying to do "serious drama criticism" during his brief tour there last year. By contrast, Benjamin DeMott attacks Kauffmann's most discussed criticism: the two articles he did for the Sunday Times accusing homosexual playwrights of always trying to"invent a two-sex version of the one-sex experience." As DeMott sees it, the homosexuals contribute a valid theatrical experience -"a steady consciousness of a dark side of love...
...know how it will all turn out. There is a ferment in the church--tragic conflict and a crisis of both faith and trust. There is anger within the church. But there is determination also. I have a feeling that ministers and laymen who are commtited to the call of the Confession will continue to give their witness and that the church's contributions and membership will decline...
...fundamentally unnecessary and unjust. This week, the students have taken possession of the main buildings, and are running an "open university." In a letter from London which arrived yesterday, a friend described the round-the-clock seminars on educational theory and structure; lectures by sympathetic academics; and the general ferment of trying to discover what "freeing education" means, and how to implement such a revolution. "Time has lost its power at LSE"--such an achievement must inspire hope in a world where students usually feel only the pressures of time and power, and rarely the fruits of their control...