Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he told the graduating class of Washington's predominantly Negro Howard University to resist "the seductive blandishments of the white liberals" and seek "audacious power-black power." Members of two of the major civil rights groups, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality, mouth it over and over. "Integration is irrelevant," cries SNCC Chairman Stokely Carmichael, 24. "Political and economic power is what the black people have to have...
...critics seemed to agree. One called it "vulgar," another said that the show "ought to be 31 centuries distant from Broadway instead of merely 40 blocks away." But others called it "inspired," "a triumph," and "a dream of a musical." For six weeks, the show lived a word-of-mouth existence, until at last it caught on. Now, five months later, it has copped virtually every award the theater has to offer: five Tonys, the New York Drama Critics Circle prize and the Outer Circle Award...
Futurist Marshall McLuhan, who has written books such as Understanding Media to explain that books are extinct, used the medium of his mouth at the International P.E.N. Congress in Manhattan to tell the 600 assembled novelists, poets and playwrights just where they will stand in the future. "We are about to see an age where the environment itself is arranged as a teaching machine," he lectured delphically. "The author is going to be engaged in programming the teaching machine." McLuhan unsettled the writers further with a slogan: "Artists should go to the control tower, not the ivory tower." But they...
...must be made aware that "he is not in the presence of persons acting solely in his interest." If he chooses to remain silent, the Government must produce evidence against the suspect through painstaking detective work "rather than the cruel, simple expedient of compelling it from his own mouth...
...easily mistaken for stony inflexibility. As played by a glacial blonde, Nina Pens Rode, the lady appears mesmerized; a reference, for instance, to her "magic charm" becomes a droll unintentional joke. She describes herself, in somewhat fustian language, as drops of dew, a passing cloud or a mouth searching for another mouth, when in fact she behaves most of the time like a mouth searching for a listening ear. Words are Gertrud's weapons, and Dreyer wields them in characteristically slow and painstaking style...