Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly after it arrived in Cambridge, a bitter dispute developed over the Teachers' Oath Act, a Massachusetts Law which required instructors to swear that they would support the national and state constitutions. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, called the act "unwarranted and dangerous to democracy." He said he represented many Faculty members in refusing to take the oath because it violated his constitutional rights...
...Motorcycles race through mud. A biplane crashes into a lake. That famous Tacoma bridge whips in the wind and collapses. The Hindenburg bursts into flame. A ship sinks. A firing squad fires. Bodies hang upside down in Rome. Bruce Conner could be interpreted as a kind of Cotton Mather XXIII. His point seems to be that if you start with a beautiful nude, death and violent destruction soon follow...
Flawed Memories. The first Cheever in America was a Puritan schoolmaster who was eulogized by Cotton Mather for "his untiring abjuration of the devil" and who believed that "man is full of misery and all earthly beauty is lustful and corrupt." Cheever's mother and her parents emigrated from England, and, he says, "there was a certain air of shabby gentility about the whole thing. I hate to speak about the twilight of Athenian Boston and all that, but Cousin Randall would play two Beethoven sonatas after dinner, and everyone would sit around and belch...
...there is indeed a new Puritanism, it has its own Cotton Mather. Man, says Norman Mailer, "knows at the seed of his being that good orgasm opens his possibilities and bad orgasm imprisons him." Many people take this issue very seriously: next month, the American Association of Marriage Counselors will hold a three-day conference on the nature of orgasm...
...self-assured David Mackenzie Ogilvy, the road to quick success on Madison Avenue was paved with good inventions. As chief of Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, which he founded 15 years ago, he has used polished presentations to woo and win blue-chip clients such as Shell Oil, General Foods, and Sears, Roebuck, and he has turned out sophisticated campaigns spotlighting the man in the Hathaway shirt and the Rolls-Royce, where "At Sixty Miles an Hour the Loudest Noise Comes from the Electric Clock." He was always ready to give an interviewer a phrase that would catch headlines, and to send...