Word: idolize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest academic underground operates within the confines of San Francisco State College, where a benign administration last winter permitted students to organize an experimental college that featured New Left Idol Paul Goodman (Growing Up Absurd) as a seminar leader. Operating out of three jerry-built huts on campus, the shadow school now has 70 courses ranging from "Competition and Violence" to "Gestalt Therapy" to "Kinesthetics." There is no charge for the seminar-like courses, which take place in the evening, and are taught by both students and members of State's faculty. Enrollment this fall...
...subterranean yen for a pseudomonarchical Kennedy "restoration," with Bobby currently playing the part of the exiled king. "There is a religious fervor building up about this guy that is even stronger than the one they built up around Jack," says Barry Goldwater. "Bobby's becoming a god, an idol...
...interrupted a movie he is making in London to put on the show, crooned a few ballads and, taking leave of the Governor backstage, flew off in the Sinatra Enterprises plane, leaving the Brown campaign kitty $225,000 fatter. Not to be outdone, Reagan, himself a late-show idol (among his credits, Brown likes to remind voters, is Bedtime for Bonzo), will be getting support on the stump from the likes of John Wayne, Irene Dunne, Chuck Connors (The Rifleman), and Senator George Murphy...
...HERO (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The foible-filled private life of a TV-western idol who's absolutely terrified of horses and allergic to sagebrush, featuring Richard Mulligan...
BYRON JAN IS: RACHMANINOFF'S CONCERTO NO. 2 and TCHAIKOVSKY'S CONCERTO NO. 1 (Mercury). With a matinee idol's face and a technique that suggests a man breathing on filaments of silk rather than pounding a piano, Janis stands up to his Billboard ratings with these favorites. His gift for phrasing is remarkable and very much his own, and Antal Dorati and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra balance his sweetness with spirited orchestral reading...