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...SNCC elections brought its ideology of activism to the Movement's vanguard. Last May SNCC was an organization grappling with growing disillusionment by elements inside and outside the group. Carmichael's taking office solved these questions as far as SNCC was concerned: white involvement in the struggle was a sell-out; the Movement had to be black, directed exclusively by and towards black people...
...despite their sound and their songs, the Righteous Brothers managed to do something inexcusable -- they enjoyed themselves at the expense of their sell-out audience and make a mockery of whatever soul was supposed to go along with the blue eyes. They never sang a song straight, except for Hatfield's "Unchained Melody," which he only got to after a five-minute build-up of bad jokes. At one of the emotional moments of "Lovin' Feeling" Hatfield suddenly stopped singing and smirked, "Ooo, let me outta here." And in "Soul and Inspiration," in any case an inferior imitation...
Members of the Lampoon had fairly definite ideas about how the 900th aniversary of the battle should be celebrated. With profits gained from their sell-out Playboy parody, the Poonies had ordered Navy surplus rafts in which the invaders were to cross the Charles, $600 worth of harmless bows and arrows which were being manufactured for them specially, and blue-prints for a catapult loaded with 1000 tennis balls were in the making...
...Chinese see negotiation in Vietnam as a sell-out of the revolution, and say that under to circumstances should Hanol go to the conference table," Morton H. Halperin, Defense Department official and former assistant professor of Government at Harvard, said last night. Halperin spoke on a program broadcast on WGBH...
...sound like a prelude to a friendly word from his sponsor. As Hope's mop-topped maid, Phyllis cleans up the house, dirties up the jokes, and delivers her own brand of kitcheny self-deprecation. There is never the slightest doubt that her next job will be a sell-out nightclub engagement in Vegas, and any viewer who thinks that's funny may be able to swallow the whole wretched show...