Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHAPE ME (ACTA). It took The American Breed five years to achieve success and the question is: Why did it take so long? They are a pleasant, easygoing group with their feet firmly planted on solid rock and enough jazz, blues and soul overtones to make the insistent Green Light, the confidential Bend Me, Shape Me, and the soul of Something You've Got and the slow rock sounds of Mind-rocker interesting, even hummable...
...impressionable minds about society's indifference to aggression and human suffering. This is an insidious attack on society's age-old weapon of restraint: collective moral indignation. The so-called "truth" is very difficult to communicate accurately. It must only be broadcast after careful evaluation in the light of total communications impact, and with full awareness of the "other and distorted messages" conveyed by carelessness or sensationalism regarding timing, balance, intonation, emphasis, association, attitude and implications. In short, newscasting can no longer afford to be show business...
...university-wide employees' strike caused the trouble--the fairways and greens had been unwatered and unclipped for weeks. Patches of dirt showed through the light-green crewcut putting surface. For Harvard golfers, unaccustomed to this mess, putting was torture...
JOHN UPDIKE'S new novel, Couples, describes a modern purgatory, a world from which God has withdrawn, a community without grace or light or love. The book, the story of various adulterous affairs among a group of affluent suburban couples, bears an ironic quotation from Paul Tillich that outlines the novel's thesis. The quotation tells us that when the average citizen feels that "the decisions relating to the life of the society to which he belongs are a matter of fate on which he has no influence," then a mood is created that "is favorable to the resurgence...
Updike's charm is often coquettish, flirtatious, a just sufficient enticement to continue reading. But it is also often a lavish measure of light, a stunning gift. It reminds us that prose writing can be an ecstatic art. It opens our eyes to the world. It returns the world to us, after we have read him, more our own than it was before...