Word: performances
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNICORN GIRL, by Caroline Glyn. A rangy, clumsy 13-year-old goes off to Girl Guide camp to find a few friends but finds herself instead. Along the way, Novelist Glyn, only 19 herself, points out some of the hilariously muddled drills that the Guides perform with girlish intensity...
Tanner did not "beat the system." He let it beat him. The Asian peasant, without access to television or comic book, will know nothing save that an American officer has admitted that some of his fellow pilots have refused to perform certain acts because they consider them criminal. For North Vietnamese propaganda purposes, a fraudulent confession is as effective as a real one, a phony pilot as useful as a genuine aviator...
...girls must stop wearing miniskirts, that boys must get short haircuts and that all young people should regularly attend church. Colonel Papadopoulos compared the take-over to a surgeon's treatment of a patient. "If the patient is not strapped to the table," he said, "the surgeon cannot perform a successful operation...
...which love is more possible," says an S.D.S leader, Carl Oglesby. For all their rant and naivete, the New Radicals can sound strongly appealing. The fact that many of their proposals are impractical and that they lack a program is not an ultimate argument against them. Critics may perform a service to a society by pointing out evil and injustice without necessarily offering alternatives. Some of the things the New Left says about modern American life need to be said and evoke certain echoes in anyone who has ever been in white-hot anger over a slum, or a traffic...
...leaders of both parties are now planning to climate the office of Economic Opportunity and divide its programs among the old-line departments. Unless the administration accedes, Rep. Goodell (R.N.Y) recently warned, they "may well kill off the whole thing." OEO has failed in these first three years to perform many of its most important tasks, but sacrificing the program to the Departments will only worsen the situation. HEW will be no more successful in coordinating the activities of other Departments and may not even feel the responsibility to do so. Eliminating OEO, officials lament, will mean...