Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking his fight to the streets, the mayor may have stirred up nearly as much trouble as he cured. Both demonstrations inflamed the already volatile suspicions between the city's populace and its minority student rebels-who, annoying though they may be, are not a real threat...
Steinberg knows enough about the characters of the Bible to put them down with learned insight. Joshua, he says, was "the first real pushy prophet"; Lot was "the first Biblical voyeur"; Jezebel "was immortalized by Frankie Laine." As for the Jonah story, "the Gentiles-as is their wont from time to time-threw the Jew overboard." If Steinberg debunks God as well, it is not the real God but the "pompous image of him created by the clergy." Solemnly, Steinberg intones: "The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. The Lord God is an Indian giver." When suffering Job calls...
...uncomplicated egalitarian where race relations are concerned, Smith nevertheless writes in his farewell column that the "elevation of Stokely Carmichael into a real force in our nation" is an example of an irresponsible journalistic buildup. A few years back, Joe McCarthy was similarly elevated, says Smith, but he at least was a U.S. Senator. Carmichael is "basically a nobody, who, before the press took notice of him, had achieved nothing. He failed to win a following-except from us with our cameras and note pads-in the rural South and in the city ghettos." Thanks to the big play...
...lifetime light bulb or a new Nixon. Until lately, men's fashion changes have added up to little more than slimmer trousers, side vents, a return of the shaped, double-breasted suit, and frilled shirts-worn mainly by actors. Lately, however, there have been signs of a real change in attitude...
...billboards go, it's a real stopper-a huge closeup photo of a pimply faced, wild-haired hippie, mounted on a ghastly yellow background and bearing the message, in red and black letters: BEAUTIFY AMERICA, GET A HAIRCUT. The poster has lately appeared on roadsides across the nation, generating no end of speculation about who or what is behind the campaign...