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...people are so absorbed with old-fashioned words that they don't even notice the tidal wave of change about to engulf them. To help them "survive," he says, he is putting out a monthly newsletter called The McLuhan Dew-Line. It is intended to "raise a mighty scream" to warn readers of the imminent electronics takeover...
...would swim as his guest. As we walked up to the hotel door, a car swooped by, the doors opened simultaneously, and four men hopped out, wearing Secret Service badges. As I got within ten yards of the door of the hotel, the crowd gathered outside began to scream, "Here he comes, here comes Reagan...
...house lights go out, a howling mob in the rear charges through the audience. Fans scream. Unshakeable photographers, like the Italian paparazzi, click their cameras. The reason? Berowne (in a mod green and lavender outfit), Longaville (Ted Graber), and Dumaine (Anthony Mainionis) have arrived, with Air India tote-bags slung over their shoulder, intent on making a retreat--just like a trio of Beatles. The King (Charles Siebert), bearded, barefoot, and white-gowned, is their chosen guru, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, speaking in a foreign accent. The constable Dull (Rex Everhart) is in khaki uniform with a sergeant's chevrons...
Television and still photographers fought for position. Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh swung at one of them. Ethel, shoved back to safety by a hotel employee at the first sound of gunfire, appeared moments later. While trying to get to her husband, she heard a youth scream something about Kennedy. "Don't talk that way about the Senator!" she snapped. "Lady," he replied, "I've been shot." And Ethel knelt to kiss the cheek of Erwin Stroll, 17, a campaign worker who had been wounded in the left shin...
...Kaprow's next happening. Certainly the scholarship and aesthetic judgment Coolidge values so highly can thrive in this quietude. But whether the impact of this intellectual activity may be obscured, whether the intelligent decisions may lose the impact they have traditionally had in an age when one has to scream to be heard, Coolidge's successor must decide