Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more of the same. Friday night: a dance held under a circus tent featuring two New York soul bands a light show, and go-go girls (one of whom fell from her rather shaky platform and threatened to sue the committee for negligence). Saturday evening: a concert by the Lovin' Spoonful followed by 2 a.m. parietals to allow for private dorm parties. For Saturday afternoon, the committee rented an entire island in Boston harbor. Party boats ran continually to shuttle celebrants to what was once an old Civil War prison. The outdoor barbecue; free sandwiches and mixer, the large open...
...30th floor apartment of Sam (children's clothes) and Alyce Simon. Mrs. Simon, who describes herself as an "atomic artist," has ripped out all the original interior walls and floors, turned a six-room apartment into a three-room suite that gives the impression of a space platform suspended in the Manhattan sky. Equally intriguing is the eleventh-floor abode of William and Milly Johnstone. Johnstone is a retired officer of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; Mrs. Johnstone, who likes to be called "Milly-san," is a Zen disciple who religiously performs her daily Japanese tea ceremony in a bedroom decorated...
...Ogilvie's methods are nothing new, some of his ideology is. He used to consider himself a conservative; last year he ran on a law-and-order platform and did not discourage the campaign help of Ronald Reagan. But Ogilvie, in his political prime at 46 and with his ambition whetted by his taste of statewide office, today terms himself part of that ever-growing American sub-party, the pragmatists...
...charged political one at that--is nonsensical. Difficulties are already arising from this attempt to resolve the contradiction between the needs of legal justice and those of political justice. In some of the Houses student candidates are being told that they will not be allowed to run on a platform of amnesty...
...students willing to pay a millionaire cartoonist $3,000 a shot to insult them from a lecture platform? "I think it's a love-hate relationship," says Al Capp, the raspy-voiced creator of Li'I Abner. "Kids want to be kicked." At 59, the onetime liberal has developed a whole new career touring campuses to trumpet his grouchy, anti-youth message. Familiarity generates deeper contempt. "The more I see of students," he says, "the more I dislike them...