Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Have you heard the one about the hippies, the mobsters, the convicts, the politician, the warden, the moll', LSD, the balloon and the gangster chief called "God"? Well, that's it. End of joke. It's called Skidoo, and the only conceivable reasons to see it are 1) to hear each and every credit, from cameraman to copyright date, sung on the sound track; 2) to see actors like Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Burgess Meredith, Peter Lawford and even Groucho Marx make fools of themselves; and 3) just to believe that it exists. Ostensibly a comedy, Skidoo...
...graduate program of some rigor and complexity, there are bound to be occasional problems of adjustment and intercommunication. I am not worried about our capacity for working them out. What worries me--when I see, on the same front page of the CRIMSON, four articles about "demands" in other departments--is the premise behind them all: that somehow students and professors are natural enemies, instead of being mutually dedicated collaborators. It is no mere cliché that the President voices at Commencement, when he tells the seniors that they are being admitted "to the fellowship of educated men." Civilization itself...
...Patriots' Day and it's the big one. There are many famous legs in the Boston Marathon, and Thousands of people take time out from their busy lives to watch the greatest exhibition of masochism in the Boston area. "It's all worth it," said one entrant, "until you see all the guys getting sick in the Prudential locker room afterwards...
Competitiveness and the making of comparisons are diseases of the imagination that come from being surrounded by people you see in bits and hear about in pieces. You can't look too long at anyone in a dorm; you have to keep circulating. You have to avoid real participation in the other people's lives; the way you do it is by talking. One would think that among all the talking going on in a Radcliffe dorm there must by the laws of probability be some of the stuff called intellectual conversation, though no one's really sure what that...
Dorms are discouraging places for boys to visit. They have to be stared at by 100 girls to get to see one. All the apparatus of bells, pink slips, tags, and signing in for parietals makes it a Special Occasion every time a boy comes, when everyone would be happier if it could be Just Dropping By. Girls are supposed to yell "Man on" when they bring their visitors upstairs and put a sign on the door after they have evacuated their roommate to leering suppositions underlying these procedures put the focus on just what the authorities are presumably trying...