Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLACKING FACTORY and PENNSYLVANIA GOTHIC, by Wilfrid Sheed. A polished novella and a long story-both about adolescence-emphasize the consequences of failing to let go of the past...
Content for the most part to let the story unfold before his camera, Axel also uses his editing to compound the violence that provides so much of the epic's power. The man-to-man battle scenes are uniquely agonizing (as well as bloody). Romance flows like blood on the beach of a fiord where pounding surf drowns out the horses' hoofbeats...
...demonstrators booed when it was over. Then the booing unexpectedly peaked and suddenly the candidate was beaming behind his big bullet-proof podium, which covered all but his head and shoulders. His sympathetic listeners in the crowd, which crammed a grassy area of several city blocks, let out whoops of greeting which again reached higher than the catcalls...
Then the candidate put on his glasses to read his speech. First thing, he wanted everybody to know that he had never acted against a man because of what he said or on account of his color. The demonstrators booed, and he said that he hoped they would let him talk; maybe by the end he would have persuaded them to see things...
...only page of this parody which elicited a sustained laugh from me wasn't supposed to: it was Life's first full-page ad, boasting a two-inch deep, white-on-red Life logo, topped by the words, "A good ribbing?" Down at the bottom, it says, "Let it never be said that Life couldn't appreciate a good ribbing. If that were true, we would never have taken this ad. But now that you've had a few laughs, it's only fair that you also have the opportunity to enjoy the real McCoy...