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...standing ovation for Old Man River. She sits down, her legs dangling over the edge of the stage for The Man That Got Away. "No more that oldtime thrill," she trills with her terrible intensity, "for I've been through the mill. . ." Many in the audience weep. Some grope down the center aisle to the stage. She leans over and kisses a proffered hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Seance at the Palace | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...grades to thermonuclear war. Hallucinogenic drugs like marijuana and LSD, they believe, are the knives that cut those knots. Once unleashed, most hippies first become insatiable hedonists, smoking and eating whatever can turn them on in a hurry; making love, however and with whomever they can find (including "group grope") that "feels good and doesn't hurt anybody"; saturating the senses with color and music, light and motion until, like an overloaded circuit, the mind blows into the never-never land of selflessness. The middleclass ego, to the hippie, is the jacket that makes society straight, and must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Hippies | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...classroom endeavors with as many as 30 shows a year, most of them "teaching exhibits," ranging from didactic displays on industrial design to such far-out spectaculars as last spring's "Feelies Show." In the latter, students were first plunged into a coal-black room, forced to grope their way along a handrail that turned from wood to fur to aluminum to sandpaper, while the floor underfoot changed from hardwood to rubbery sponge, in order, as Hayes puts it, to make them "aware" that they are "all nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teachers: How Much Rubbed Off? | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...conventional war-rational rationing, orderly evacuation to the safe suburbs. Abruptly, a nuclear bomb explodes off-camera. The screen whitens with the flash, then rumbles with the shock wave. The sound, intones an off-screen narrator, is "like an enormous door slamming in hell." Children with seared eyes grope for help, fires rage incessantly, food riots begin. The police execute looters-and then turn on the hopelessly ill, shooting them down like horses as they writhe outside the hospital that can no longer help them. At last, apathy envelops the populace like a thick London fog. Asked what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imagining the Unimaginable | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...right for George to want to be President, but I object to his using the White House as a steppingstone." Another: "Deep down, he's shallow." When his supporters opened a special research office in Lansing, wags dubbed it "George Romney's Office of Presidential Exploration-GROPE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: The Temper of the Times | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

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