Word: self
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christ was a dreamer. The martyrs were excessive as they leaped at the lions and the flames. St. Francis and his little band of bearded, be-sandaled, begging Italians were fools par excellence. Phantasy? Look to the Apocalypse and the books of Daniel, and Ezechiel. Contemplation is a dream self-induced by asceticism or Godgiven ecstasy, but not too practical...
...director of Harvard's Psychiatric Services said in an article in yesterday's Herald Traveller that today's "adolescent rebellion" is characterized by "self-destructive behavior...
...headquarters has a self-contained business; for the real action, most volunteer workers discover, one has to move into the streets. The offices provide a place to start, but most of the out-of-towners who manned the phones Thursday have since moved...
...films enlarge the audience's moral awareness of its experience by developing the implications of their styles. Our enjoyment of Madame de... shifts toward regret when we see that its sweeping camera motions are imprisoning its characters in dances through time. The vulgarity of our love of spectacle and self-revelation turns Lola Montes into a terrible humiliation of its heroine...
...full advantage of what children like best about TV. "Face it-kids love commercials," explains Joan Ganz Cooney, executive director of NET's Children's Television Workshop. "Their visual impact is way ahead of everything else seen on television; they are clever, and they tell a simple, self-contained story." Instead of cornflakes and Kleenex, Sesame Street sells the alphabet, numbers, ideas and concepts in commercial form. Each program contains a dozen or more 12- to 90-second spots, many repeated during the program to boost retention. Some are based on a sort of psychedelic flash card system...