Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Terriers (17-4-1), stung by the December loss to Harvard and last Saturday's upset by Colgate, put on one of their finest performances of the season before a sellout crowd of 15,003 in Boston Garden...
...gargantuan exercise in such cultural capitulation," said the Rev. Richard Neuhaus, an antiwar activist and pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Brooklyn. Neuhaus and Fellow Lutheran Peter Berger, iconoclastic author and sociologist at Rutgers, were the originators of the protest. Exasperated by what they consider a church sellout to such man-made ideologies as scientific rationalism and socialism, they wrote the original draft of the statement a year ago, mailed it to 50 churchmen for their reactions and summoned the Hartford meeting to prepare the final declaration...
...time of Bela Bartok. They are by Composer Elliott Carter, and the trio of works have a collective age of 44 years. Yet no group had ever played all or even two of them at one sitting; scheduling even one is a calculated risk. The recital was a sellout. So was the second, held two days later to meet the demand for tickets. It appears that the string-quartet audience in the U.S. is not only larger than ever before but a great deal more mature...
Over the heckling of the African Unity League, senator-elect Owens delivers his words. "Sellout..." they scream as he smoothly relates his decision to march down Boylston Street accompanied by a few companions. He is made for T.V. consumption. Something to believe...
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain is manifestly sympathetic to the Indians who call themselves traditionals and refer to other, "sellout" Indians as "Apples"-that is, red on the outside, all white just below the skin. The movie has something urgent to say, but its theme and the situation it portrays are so tragically familiar that much of their impact is vitiated. Despite Robert Redford's narration, Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain is also a shambles, manufactured with the kind of earnest clumsiness that gives documentaries a bad name...