Word: screwing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generation and the folk-rock musical supposedly speaks to us and for us as Oklahoma cannot. But Tom Sankey's The Golden Screw is a pretender to the folk-rock name which rejects our commitments to urban-ness, peace and humanity and insults our perspicacity. It idealizes instead a Dylanesque young folk singer who goes through the protest song stage into electronic rock on the rock road to success. At the end, when our hero is king of the music mountain, he sings a last rock song about "Flipping Out". Then he asserts his individuality by saying "fuck...
Most noticeable (and most refreshing) is the refusal of Mayer and his cast to take the dialogue at face value: actors create their own speech rhythms, throw away phrases with alarming frequency, emphasize unexpected words to hilarious effect and happily screw around with the sacred meter of the verse...
...defeat. McCarthy, even in an uncongenial state, still couldn't be beaten. Some staff members were leaving that night for Nebraska. Others would be going on to California the next day. The staff room was jammed with volunteers asking for full-time staff applications. Many had decided to screw school and stay with the campaign. Others would get out to the Coast after exams. And everyone promised to meet in Chicago. The crusade was still snowballing; the entourage of idealistic college dropouts was growing. Someone made a sign: Robert Lowell for Secretary of State. We were dreaming once again...
...down seven guys. I am one eighth of the crew. I am one-fiftieth of this demonstration. And I am not even sure that this demonstration is right. But I multiplied these figures by an absolute importance constant. I hate to hamper the hobby of my friends (and maybe screw, probably screw my own future in it). I am sorry about that, but death is being done by this university and I would rather fight it now than row a boat...
...policies are "not only a matter of purely Chinese concern" and that they are "doing great harm to the cause of socialism and revolution throughout the world." Kommunist accused Mao of demanding "blind obedience and barrack-room discipline, which turns a human being into a small screw in a bureaucratic machine...