Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often before in its frenetic past, the Ramparts staff was locked in debate over its future. Typically, it was letting mini-skirted secretaries and bearded writers have as much say as its directors. The argument was not over policy but money; Ramparts needs at least $300,000 to clear its debts. No one believed that both Ramparts and a competitor could survive. The question was whether the staff should follow Mitchell's plan to reorganize while in bankruptcy and seek new funding, or buy Hinckle's idea of starting all over under a new name. Said Mitchell...
...Lipton's own making--he insists the classifying shouldn't have ended in 1486. In a final and separate section of the book, he does his own inventing: a complex of psychoanalysts, a failing of students, an unction of undertakers (a larger group: an extreme unction), a rise of mini-skirts. He even outlines production rules: onomatopoeia, habitat, comment, etc. Always, the first term must pinpoint a feeling we have about the group being described. For instance, Lipton rules out calling prostitutes an anthology of pros, because the humor lies in the second term--anthology makes no poetic comment...
...architect of these events hopes that her myths "are speaking out against imposed authority, against ruts and for change." At 48, she no longer dances regularly, but is busily experimenting with new variations of her myth form. So far she has concocted something called "rituals" (which are, in effect, mini-myths) and "twos" (which require participants to act as couples throughout). Next month, at Los Angeles' Music Center, she will stage her most ambitious undertaking to date: a Watts myth. "It will not be a black-white confrontation," she says, "but rather a recognition of ourselves through color differences...
...songs is that they always make perfect sense within the right context. I couldn't imagine a situation in which "I'm a Boy" would have made sense, except if his parents were crazy. But then I read that it was part of a whole story, an early mini-opera. It was supposed to take place in the future, where some parents order a girl from the child supplying centre, but they get a boy instead, and won't accept the fact that the child suppliers made a mistake. The song is sung by their child. All the songs tells...
...Thank you. The next . . . The next number is the mini-opera, we played it last time we were in, and in case any oy you don't know the story its all about a campfire girl, who was seduced. Seduced by an old engine driver, called Ivor, who was a Welshman. Any Welshmen in the audience? Any people in the audience with their parents waiting outside to retain them? He was a Welshman anyway, and he seduced the campfire girl while her boy-friend was away working. And when he found out about it he forgave her, as all good...