Word: lads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more clods of earth fell into the incredibility gap this week when the lad from the Pedernales insisted that American success in Vietnam will "lead to a free Asia--and a more secure America." It is a moot point, of course, whether Asians have more freedom amidst Yankee gunfire or Oriental Communism...
...over in his mind a private snapshot album of The Ways Things Were. And over across the hill, the Japanese are doing the same. Every cliche is in its niche: the sensitive downy-cheeked youngster who wants to be a lawyer; the noble captain (Wilde) who tells the lad that he "will be a better lawyer for all this"; the hillbilly hankering after "jes' one more woman afore Ah git it." Grisly glimpses of shot-off limbs and other carnage lend the film a certain sense of reality, but in the end blood and treacle flow at equal rate...
Half a Sixpence, based on an H. G. Wells rags-to-riches-to-rags story, stars Hal Holden as the singing and dancing cockney lad who moves blithely from one class and one fortune to another...
...useful monograph, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, long out of print, has just been reprinted and is available from the New York office for a dollar.) Also on view here is Mrs. Fuller's powerful 1937 work, "The Talking Skull," which depicts a nearly naked lad kneeling on the ground before an unearthed skull...
...tall, fair, baby-faced lad whose pronouncements sometimes lean toward the studied and pompous, Buswell entered Harvard because he believes that it is the duty of the performer to "seek an expression peculiar to his generation, and college is one way of discovering what my generation is all about."* As a result, while most young musicians today approach the classics on bended knee, vowing technically precise, note-for-note fidelity, Buswell views his role as that of a "performer in the creative sense, equally creative as the composer...