Word: rackingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were viewing the crucifixion and being crucified at the same time. The incantatory rendering of dialogue sometimes resembles the Mass. The sounds that the cast utters are as arresting as if they were the cries of the damned in hell. On the rack of torment, Cieslak's body shudders convulsively from head to toe, and few athletes could begin to match the physical suppleness of a cast that seems as fit for dance as drama. At times, the company freezes in still lifes of agony. One is constantly aware of Cieslak's psychic pain, a pain beyond tears...
...discover the incredible fragility of the individual-alone, or as a member of a group, a generation, of an Establishment or the anti-Establishment. For a time we lived apart from the ebb and flow of the larger society and those things that put men on the rack. The student generation now with us insists, quite correctly, that the academic institution has enormous power and that we should be careful about what we think and about what we believe and do. And the realization of the scope of this power creates a responsibility to the edge of the stone...
What is to be said to a white student who is on the rack because we adults have left him a guilt derived from living in an incredioly violent, racist, and cruel world...
...elbow gliding along toward his test tube rack, but there was nothing he could do about it. He watched as the rack and eighteen test tubes of proteins went into the air and hit the floor. It had seemed so inevitable, even if only for an instant, that he wondered why the girl was all upset. She was almost hysterical...
...hold a public mirror to a society's private fantasies. A nation gets the kind of art and entertainment it wants and will pay for. Thus to many serious critics, and they are by no means all bluenoses or comstockians, the explosion of salacity in cinema, theater and book rack is disturbing. Esthetically, pop sex may well reflect a stunting of the imagination, a dilution of artistic values, and a cultish attempt to substitute sensation for thought. Morally and psychologically, it may signal a deeper unease connected with a crisis of values. It also has its political aspects...