Word: louds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goes, with middle-class students swelling the ranks of ROTC, with increasingly loud murmurs emanating from the corpse that was the Selective Service System, and with the Pentagon's computers humming and clicking along, playing a neat counterpoint in the background. Of course, not everyone agrees with what is going on: at Georgetown University, for instance, the Rev. Richard T. McSorley, professor of theology, still demonstrates alone against the school's ROTC program. Decrying what he calls the army's attempt "to 'psychologize' students into accepting militarism," McSorely marches alone every week in front of the school's main library...
...recriminations have been loud and, considering that the French Communists are among the most monolithic of the Western European parties, startlingly public. Indeed, there was audible grumbling within the ranks last fall, when Marchais began his public jousting with the Socialists. It was ostensibly over the extent to which French industry should be nationalized under the left's Common Program; many party members feared that feuding with the Socialists on this point might wreck the left's chances of winning power...
...reminded that the Beatles upended parent-child relationships, destroyed the Brylcreem market and supplanted the Kennedys as teen-age-culture heroes. One girl is so shaken by Beatlemania that she breaks up with her fiance; she suddenly senses that life has more possibilities than she had previously realized. A loud mouthed boy (Bobby DiCicco) tries to chop down the Sullivan show's transmitter because he knows that the Beatles mean the death of his macho '50s-greaser style. But history cannot be stopped, and the film ends with an ingenious restaging of the Beatles' TV debut...
...good sense to record it with care. For once we are spared sloppy home-movie camera work and endless shots of the blissed-out fans: Scorsese and his team of cinematographers use film to enhance the music rather than smother it. While The Last Waltz is as loud and grand as one expects, the film fosters an intimate relationship between its audience and the rock artists onscreen...
...hallway, a junior History concentrator leans against a wall and wonders out loud about a system that will kick his favorite teacher, an assistant professor. out of the University in a couple of years...