Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four-year-old avocation of John Bear, 33, a freelance writer, erstwhile adman, and co-inventor of the once popular Beethoven sweatshirt. Having sweated out a real doctorate in communications at Michigan State University, he found himself feeling less than charitable each June as he read about such instant academics as Dr. Captain Kangaroo, Dr.Bob Hope and the late Dr. Dario Toffenetti, a Manhattan restaurateur honored by the University of Idaho for "promoting . . . the Idaho potato...
Seldom have these ingredients been brought together in such perfect balance as in the New York City Ballet's new instant masterpiece, Choreographer Jerome Robbins' The Goldberg Variations. The unspectacular title refers to the music that both inspired and accompanied the work: the 30 variations based on a theme from the Anna Magdalena Pianobook composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1742. Just as Bach's music constitutes a lifetime lesson in keyboard knowledge, Robbins' variations in motion add up to a passionate yet restrained encyclopedia of dance. The Goldberg Variations, which has been made part...
...extremely short-term full commitment, as in the few hours of a demonstration. The instances of complete devotion to a cause are rare here, perhaps because, as it is popular to suggest, we are a selfish, private people. But perhaps also because we have come to expect instant results to our actions. In a country where we can pick up a telephone rather than wait for a letter, where we can consult a computer for the results of an election minutes after the polls close, it becomes difficult to understand that political actions will have a delayed rather than...
Sharp suggests that the population will have to be educated to understand the uses of nonviolent tactics. But Sharp never recognizes that Americans will need a cultural re-education before they will be able to accept the delayed effectiveness of nonviolent activities. Without this understanding of America's instant culture it is hard to see how any program for large-scale nonviolence could ever succeed in this country...
...ideas, whereas Cambridge is full of professors who are so busy trying to change the world, advertise themselves and endure their students that they have no time for people. What is more, many a man who was an ordinary, pleasant person in Washington turns into an instant Cambridgean upon receiving a faculty appointment...