Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When I first looked at the program last night, I thought for a moment the Ivy League had revived Spring football. John Hoffman, Bill Grana, Tom Stephenson, Bob Stringer and John Hartranft populate my personal pantheon of grid heroes, not thespians...
Height of Nonchalance. The bagel makes it at Keeney's and goes on to do everything but split and butter herself. Through the show, she has 18 costume changes and four hair styles. One moment she is hurtling through the air in a celebrational block party, and the next she is singing a deepsong called People ("People who need people are the luckiest people in the world"). One moment she is staggering offstage under a 3-ft. floral headdress that might have been fashioned by a faggot Cherokee, and the next she is an eight-months-pregnant bride...
...away in tramcars. There is a panicked whisper of running feet, a scream, a distant moan. The chorus is a clamor of wails-"the rats, the rats." Trombones trail down the declining moan of an air-raid siren, and the orchestra shrieks in echoed despair. In a long, fatal moment, the music dies on the slowly fading tremor of a gong. And in that long moment last week, a hushed audience at London's Royal Festival Hall perceived the chilling profundity of Roberto Gerhard's The Plague, an oratorio of terror based on the novel by Albert Camus...
...described the coming of age of a Manchester slum waif with the birth of her illegitimate baby: a daughter; in London, on March 4. The name of the father and her own marital status, said the playwright, "are things I am not prepared to discuss at the moment...
...these two events Hosea hoped to draw more support from the outside. However, local segregation was proving tough to crack. What little we Negro and white demonstrators achieved here would be a minor advance in the struggle for integration. What we white students contributed, moreover, was useful at the moment, but would lose its significance in the long run if we didn't follow up with more and more participation. "We want to get you hooked on our Negro problem" returned Hosea with his challenge. The efficacy of white student participation lies in its sustained effort...