Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guarantee acceptance somewhere. About 70% fail to land their first choice. To handle all the applicants, some graduate schools have expanded their enrollments by as much as 20% a year in the past five years. The worst is still ahead: the postwar babies, now undergraduates, will begin to gang up on graduate gates in 1968. By 1970, there will be about 800,000 graduate students...
Though the burnings had been announced in advance, no uniformed police were present. But a crowd of 150 high school students were on hand for the show - and they did not like what they saw. "Kill them! Shoot them! Commie!" cried the gang. They surged forward, knocking some of the demonstrators to the ground and slugging and kicking them until the cops finally arrived to rescue them. Said a veteran police captain: "Anyone foolish enough to commit such an unpatriotic gesture in South Boston can only expect what these people got." Later, in court to face charges stemming from...
...copy. TV Guide sold like sweepstakes tickets. Television stations stepped up their coverage, and staffers of the Record American and the Herald-Traveler appeared on camera daily to read the news. Decked out in button-down TV-blue shirts, they no longer looked like the old city-room gang. Boston Globe reporters also tried TV, but gave it up. What with stumbling over their lines and never looking at the camera, they were making such a bad impression that they feared people would not read them once they got back into print...
...fall of scenery. The music, crucial to any decent Brecht production, seems to have been composed by a tone-deaf mute. Watching the cast's birdlike masks and flaming Oriental finery is far better than watching their acting, for the troupe is about as playful as a gang of work elephants piling teak...
...square who refuses to destalinize and can't imagine what her late husband would have thought, seeing their son a class traitor among all those Mayfair types. "He wanted to shoot the royal family," she fusses, "and put everyone who had been to public school in a chain gang. He was an idealist, your Dad was." Most of the sane characters in Morgan! are a little daft as well, the better to plug the movie's thesis that mental health nowadays may be a mixed blessing...