Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trivia Games. Basically a twelve-projector magic-lantern show, Television Environment flashes freeze frames of evocative TV vignettes round the walls of the gallery: Arlene Francis blindfolded. A masked Lone Ranger. Premier Kosygin. Indistinguishable beauty contest winners. Teddy Kennedy delivering his Chappaquiddick apologia. Truth or Consequences. David Susskind. Moon shots. Spiro Agnew cooking linguini with Dinah Shore. Mr. Ed. Fulton Sheen. A sportscast logo. Truman Capote. General Westmoreland with Ed Sullivan. Perry Como. U Thant, Joe Namath, and so on, for a total of 1,000 slides that are continuously seen on the walls from museum opening to closing. Simultaneously...
Though his hatred of the war is all but incandescent throughout, Glasser's book is more complex than an antiwar document. He sympathetically records, for example, the story of "Mccabe," an intelligent and ambitious college man who joined the Army, passed OCS, then entered Ranger training, partly out of some sense of what Yeats called "the fascination of what's difficult." A personal ethic of excellence propelled him to master the techniques of survival and killing. There is a larger American lesson in him. Mccabe wound up, 27 days after he arrived in Viet Nam, sitting...
...committed revolutionary, yet he always seemed about to be consumed by his own gentleness. In the world he believed in he might have been a forest ranger or a doting and bemused primary school teacher. Perhaps because he was by natural inclination so unlike a political leader, he managed to avoid the anti-human and rhetorical aspects of a political life. Perhaps it was because, as a friend suggested, he made the decision to be a political actor over again each morning. For whatever reason, he seemed always to speak the best parts of what he knew, and to give...
...eight years, on TV and in the movies, Harold J. Smith was known as Tonto, the bass-toned sidekick of the Lone Ranger (played by John Hart). But now Smith has assumed a more authentic Indian name. "Jay Silverheels is a translation of my Indian name," he explained after having it legally changed, "and since I'm an Indian, I've never seen a reason why I shouldn't use it." His grandfather became a Smith, Silverheels noted, when Indian officials advised members of the family to change their names "so that they wouldn...
...descend in eloquence, you get closer to the money." One of his predecessors in the toughest Cabinet job, John Gardner, believes that "if he gets any kind of breaks, he'll be one of the best of HEW secretaries. You don't need a Lone Ranger. You need a man with damn good judgment and steadiness...