Word: hums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book, leaving shortly after with a small train of people behind. After wandering in and out of Reading International and the Paperback Booksmith, he headed through the Yard to Lowell Lecture Hall, where he sat quietly with his entourage through the last ten minutes of Daniel Seltzer's Hum 8 lecture. After class, he talked for 40 minutes with the students who gathered around...
...Sitting there, listening to that lecture, you reminded me of sheep," he said. "Why did you sit here and listen to that shit?" he asked, adding that he was referring to lectures generally and not to today's Hum 8 lecture specifically. He admitted that he had not heard much of that lecture...
...HUM. First the Columbia Spectator retold what had happened in Up Against the Ivy Wall. Then James Simon Kunen expostulated in The Strawberry Statement. And now, two years after the event, Roger Kahn offers another account of the 1968 spring disruptions at Columbia...
...Funt's TV work there was an underlying hum of smugness. Here it becomes a dominant theme. The most vulnerable targets of Funt's sexual satire are social victims: fat ladies in print dresses, cavernous old men prattling about the new amorality, young men anxious for employment, unaware that the hidden waiting-room camera is counting every tic. Periodically, Funt breaks in to remind the audience that it is hidebound by the strictures of Victorian morality, that his X-rated candid camerawork is helping to free society from hypocrisy and cant. But if society were truly free, there...
...HUM WHILE I fizzle a black and white soda (nothing is really black and white . . . ). There's a new product on the market: flavored douches-just great, except they haven't worked up such a variety as Brigham's offers: coffee, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, raspberry, pineapple, mint hot fudge, Jesus can you imagine hot fudge? Yes, I am playing a game. I will graduate from candy-pink to black and then, some picture-frame day, to white. Like Hester, I will take off my hair net, let my hair hang down. Even a waitress, even everyone of us plays...