Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, the possibilities are endless. One girl applying to a West Coast college claimed a blue belt in Aikido. Equally imaginative bids for seeming extra-curricularly exotic have deluged the colleges with alleged harpsichord builders, guinea-pig breeders, inventors of electronic nutcrackers, boy falconers, girls with pet iguanas, adolescent TV producers and fund-raisers for Biafra. One boy wrote starkly, "I have seared the streets," a sign of the new fad for ghetto toil, which is edging out mental-hospital work as an earnest of social conscience. On the other hand, artistic achievement still earns points. To that...
...Where are you wounded?" he asked me. I pointed out my wound to him. The Pig of Pigs looked down at my wound, raised his foot and stomped on the wound...
...structure of In the Year of the Pig reflects this dichotomy between life and analysis. The whole film is an interplay between analysis concocted in tranquility and life enacted in unanalyzed violence. The analysts are always there, narrating the actions of others. Sometimes we see bright and uncomfortable close-ups of their faces (usually minus the tops of their heads) as they clinically pick apart and piece together the puzzle of Vietnam. Paul Mus, Professor of Buddhism at Yale, lounges in his living room chair beside a hi-fi speaker and Oriental trinkets and dramatically recreates his contact with...
...Year of the Pig" is much more than a collage of poignant footage. It is a document of what is happening this very minute in our heads and someplace not so far away...
...Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, who will be Master of Mather House when it opens next Fall, says he will oppose any use of Mather as a "guinea pig" for coeducation...