Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across Pakistan last week, patriotic banners adorned public buildings, guns boomed, and thousands thrilled at the sight of "enemy forces" being put to rout in mock battles. The occasion was the first anniversary of the outbreak of the border war with India-a conflict in which the shooting stopped only after Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin brought the two foes together at Tashkent last January...
...Glue. For days the local newspapers had been full of the mock-solemn high jinks that Art Professor Kaprow, Sculptor Charles Frazier and CBS Producer Gordon Hyatt were concocting. The point, explained Kaprow, was to have a plan, but no rehearsal, no separation of audience and spectators. Just pick a theme, arrange the setting, and let things happen. For the Hamptons' Happening, which was to go on for three days, the theme was "Gas," in part because Kaprow & Co. intended to use a lot of helium for balloons...
...before culling a roster of 700-plus guests. Myriad flowers were planted and nurtured, a raft of invitations elegantly addressed by three staff calligraphers. Dresses had to be selected for the bride and her attendants, a trousseau acquired, security arrangements settled and-after a parade of cardboard-and-frosting mock-up models worthy of changeover season in Detroit-the wedding cake approved and confected...
...safety. No other American has been rescued so close to North Viet Nam's main population center. Four and a half hours after takeoff, Adams-fondly nicknamed "Bulb" because of his prematurely receding hairline-was back aboard the Oriskany. Squadron 162 greeted him with pistols raised in mock salute-and two ounces of Napoleon brandy. To Minneapolis, Adams wired: "Would you believe it? I did it again...
...Lauren Bacall what she is going to do with the next 20 years and her mouth twists in a self-amused grimace: "Try to survive-for openers." The humor is symptomatic and the understatement characteristic. The generation that is in command has little taste for mock heroics and even less for overstatement. Its eyes are relatively clear, if at times somewhat troubled. Its productive record is vast and its potential still enormous. While at times it may seem hesitant and confused, it has pride in its competence, intelligence and tenacity, and staunch confidence in the future...