Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That any judge would feel himself or any random assembly of writers equipped to define "offensive material" or "redeeming social value" seems fantastically presumptuous. Any form of literary criticism is by definition subjective, and a judge's particular taste is, at best; a shaky basis for a legal decision...
...VIDA by Oscar Lewis. 669 pages. Random House...
...time for his solo, all 16 of his sidemen, like disciples at the feet of the master, craned in their chairs to watch and listen. Feet dancing, hands whirring like propellers, he sparked a kind of static electricity between cymbals and drums, tossing in an extra riff here, a random bass line there. His rolls were incredibly fast, his technique and rhythmic continuity flawless...
...debate between McNamara and an eloquent spokesman they had brought to the campus, Robert Scheer, an editor of Ramparts magazine and an unsuccessful anti-war congressional candidate. Institute officials quashed the proposal, and McNamara spoke for three hours in Quincy House to 15 students at a lunch and a random selection of 50 at a seminar. He urged students to work for civil rights rather than against...
WAITING FOR WINTER by John O'Hara. 466 pages. Random House...