Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sand." The talk of a husband and wife in bed at night, speaking of their children or their friends, evokes in tone and languor the bedroom conversation familiar to all parents. In the Guerins' home, guests move through "a low varnished hallway where on a mock cobbler's bench their coats and hats huddle like a heap of the uninvited." Houses have windows whose panes are "flecked with oblong bubbles and tinged with lavender." A television screen's "icy brilliance implies a universe of profound cold beyond...
Unfortunately, Godard this time has squandered his prodigious technique on a feeble fable about a one-dimensional collection of bourgeois undergraduates who appear to be trying on Red to see if it flatters their complexions. In the end, nothing about La Chinoise can be taken seriously-neither the mock-revolutionaries, who cannot commit a terrorist act without knocking off the wrong man, nor Godard, who fails as a satirist because his preening pupils, full of the pop and pap of the New left, are already a satire on themselves. Despite sonorous allusions to such major artists as Brecht, Goethe...
Student groups at Harvard have been actively compaigning for the mock election and plan to distribute pamphlets outside the polls today...
Time, however, claims that the mock election is for information only. A spokesman for UNIVAC, a division of the Sperry-Rand Corporation that will tabulate the results by early May, called Choice '68 "the first complete tabulation and analysis in history of the voting preferences of a nation-wide segment of the U.S. population...
Harvard students will vote today in a mock bipartisan presidential election sponsored by Time magazine...