Word: friedmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Americans have used the word for only about 60 years. It is frequently applied on the basis of fashion, folklore and snobbery. An invisible admissions committee rules out most conservatives-except, perhaps, a William F. Buckley or a Milton Friedman. "Liberal" and "intellectual" are thought to meld nicely. Among scientists, for example, Liberal J. Robert Oppenheimer met the test, but Conservative Edward Teller did not. If nothing else, Viet Nam has provided a handy screening device. Opposition to the war has clinched the intellectual standing of Senator J. William Fulbright and perhaps even of Dr. Spock. War supporters who have...
...show, skillfully produced by WOR's Stanley Friedman, Frederickson turns out to be as telegenic as Kildare or Casey. Greeting home viewers and a studio panel of nine with a cheery "Hello, smokers," he does not order them to stop smoking in the first program. As a matter of fact, he tells them to keep it up. The catch: they must wrap a sheet of paper and two rubber bands around their cigarette packs to make taking out a cigarette complicated. Frederickson suggests that whenever his listeners unwrap, they also log the hour, their activity and mood...
Another rueful Jewish hero! After Elkin and Roth and Bellow and Bruce Jay Friedman and Yahweh-knows-who! Will it never end? Apparently not. And what is most trying, this latest exemplar deserves special attention. For Bernard Malamud has invented a mixed-up little anti-hero all his own: the schlemiel-saint-eyes on heaven, feet on the banana peel. He has appeared in short stories (The Magic Barrel) and novels (A New Life, The Fixer). The Malamud man wobbles between laughter and tears. One minute he can be all suffering profile, squirming against his private cross. The next minute...
...evening began with an attractive if unremarkable sonata for violin and piano by Michael Friedman. The violin writing was awkward rather than intelligently varied, suffering from repetitious phrase-length and dynamic graduations. The two instruments were carelessly counterpoised in a discontinuously rhapsodic style...
Harvard has little chance of toppling pre-meet favorites Denver, Dartmouth, and the University of Colorado, and coach Dick Friedman sounds uncertain while predicting the Harvard will finish sixth among the 15-team field...