Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French crews have a much pleasanter home. They are housed in the ultramodern Hotel Gamba, where they spend their off-duty time devouring expensive meals ($25 and up) and socking away wine at $15 a bottle. Clad in soiled shorts and sweat-stained shirts, their bare feet stuck into rubber Japanese zori, they look to be a much scruffier lot than the colonial swells at the Rèsidence. They are much more close-mouthed as well. All attempts to start conversations fail; their thin, long-nosed Gallic faces remain blank...
When musicologists of the future start rummaging through the LP artifacts of the '60s, they will be able to discern several distinct phases in the stylistic evolution of the Beatles. Rubber Soul (1966) was the last album of their archaic period, blending the best kind of rock naivete with a mastery of simple forms. Sgt. Pepper (1967) represents the Beatles at their classic moment, fusing the pop spirit and an astoundingly eclectic range of sounds into a harrowing but harmonious whole. Their double-disk album called simply The Beatles, which has just been released in the U.S.,* may well...
...ONLY ONE of their albums have the Beatles taken a fundamental step forward to compare with their achievements on the singles. That record was Rubber Soul, which brought about the supreme liberation of rhythm-and-blues by injecting an unprecedented controlled melody into the rigid structure of thumping drums and bass. In doing so, Rubber Soul significantly dissolved this structure by making it technically and spiritually possible to fuse a lurching tune onto stuttering, free drums. This development led the Beatles directly through the half-successful numbers "Rain" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" to its culmination in the masterpiece, "Strawberry Fields...
Actually, the Corporation is little more than a rubber stamp for the recommendations of President Pusey and Treasurer Bentinck-Smith. And the latter's proposals are prepared by the team of "experts" in Massachusetts Hall known as the administrators. Of course, the administration cannot make decisions contrary to the interests of the wealthy businessmen who compose the Corporation. So their decisions must allow Harvard to make an ever increasing amount of money above cost. This means Harvard must present a "good image," and, ultimately, that student activity must be kept in line with what is acceptable to that particularly conservative...
...open fight against antisocialist forces." Meanwhile, outside the hall, some 500 younger Czechoslovaks waited. As the crowd walked out of the door, it was greeted with hoots of "collaborators!" and "shame!" Soon fists were flying. It took several busloads of police, who waded into the crowd with rubber truncheons to restore order...