Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Happiness is a Warm Gun" is a terrifying song about suicide written no doubt by Lennon. For all his self-parody in "Glass Onion" Lennon does handle images masterfully in this song to convey a real sense of personal anguish. He speaks of himself in the third person...
...blues for so long because they were incapable of it disappears after "Yer Blues." Lacking a guitar virtuoso like Jeff Beck or Clapton, the Beatles have fashioned their own version of the medium, a kind of pop-blues that is faithful to the spirit and style of the real blues. It is so exciting to hear the Beatles play the blues that one is tempted to wish that they might fully commit themselves...
Daniel F. Connelly, the chairman of the convention's coordinating committee, said the second meeting "is going to help keep the pressure on for real commitment from the groups who are responsible for this [housing] situation and morally obligated to contribute to a solution...
...that sort of student power in mind when they decided to share themselves with Yale for one week. Although there were innumerable efforts to make it respectable by scheduling coeducational panel discussions with titles like, "Educational Innovation: Is It Possible Within The Present University Structure?" and "Exploitation In Ghetto Real-Estate Transactions," we all knew why we were there, and they all knew why we were there and we didn't need any panel discussions to help us along...
...same kind of confusion hits several other pieces. Chris Hart's "Jumping John" is a nice little parody of the modern-sordid school of writing, but like James Dickson's "The Modigliani Face," it relies for its humor on the dubious assumption that any real-life trend will be funny if exaggerated enough. Now that may be a sure-fire key to effective political satire (e.g. exaggerate the horrors of war and people will get fed up with it), but it doesn't always make for a good laugh. Dickson, by plugging in tidbits of humor-in-microcosm ("Brackley...worked...