Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today's avantgarde, notably Jean Genet (Our Lady of the Flowers) and William Burroughs (Naked Lunch). "The new immoralists" is what they are labeled by Partisan Review Editor William Phillips, who is anything but a literary reactionary. He adds: "To embrace what is assumed to be beyond the pale is taken as a sign of true sophistication. And this is not simply a change in sensibility; it amounts to a sensibility of chaos...
...incorporates black-and-white wartime film clips. Otherwise the prime-time rainbow will be unblemished. And off prime time, NBC will continue to colorcast the Johnny Carson Show and at least 18 daytime hours each week. When it all started in 1954, NBC managed to grind out only a pale 68 color hours for the year. For the 1965-66 schedule, that total will...
...youths at Catoctin Mountain are a pathetic lot. One is Robert Collier, 16, a pale, skinny boy from Big Stone Gap, Va., who had hardly got settled in camp when he had to have 14 teeth extracted. Asked when he had last been to a dentist, he replied: "I ain't never been." Another is Ray Martin, 18, who hails from "a holler" near Isom, Ky., where he lived with his widowed mother, six brothers and sisters. At six, Martin was gathering coal in an abandoned mine shaft to provide the family's fuel. At 16, he went...
Though racial prejudice is not one of the easiest table-pounding topics to laugh at, Bruce Jay Friedman made it appallingly funny two years ago in his memorable first novel, Stern. The book's pathetic hero is a middle-class urban Jew with round shoulders and "pale spreading hips," who moves his sexy wife and lonely child out to the suburbs...
...unreasonably long time. Majestically I raised my hand for a crescendo, and only when it reached its peak did I recall the national anthem." Returning to his cello, he found it like "a piece of furniture I had never seen before . . . Its import seemed pale in comparison to the reception of my conducting." Disturbed that "the little baton had such an easy victory over my Stradivari," he has resisted the spell of the magic wand ever since...