Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studded by advertisements for psychedelic happenings and underground movies and interviews with Allen Ginsberg or Timothy Leary. They also offer lots of free verse on the joys of copulation, distinguished from John Donne's comparable rhapsodies by a self-conscious injection of four-letter words doggedly intended to shock. The movement's bard is Bob Dylan (when in doubt, New Leftists always sing). But on the whole the New Left distrusts the hippies and the beats, who want to drop out of society...
...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Four consistently droll, frequently hilarious, and occasionally touching playlets by Robert Anderson, who plays his variations on a theme of sex-as an element of shock in art, a waning force in middle age, a matter of concern to parents, a misty memory of the aged...
Accident. A metal-crunching car crash shatters the silence of a warm Oxford night. In the wreck lie a boy (Michael York), mangled and dead, and a beautiful girl (Jacqueline Sassard), in shock but uninjured. A university don (Dirk Bogarde) runs to the car, recognizes its occupants as his students, and gives the girl his hand. As she emerges, she steps on the dead boy's face-an act that symbolizes what is past in her life and what is to come in the film. The don takes the girl into his home, puts her to sleep...
...Fascist powers in the Spanish Civil War--that is, a desire to "test our latest weapons." Although the Administration's policy may be objectionable for other reasons, such strident rhetoric is not only of doubtful value in rallying Negroes against the present policy, but may alienate moderate whites. Shock tactics will only isolate their proponents in such a faraway corner of the political arena that they may be ignored. In identifying with "doves," the civil rights movement--which will always need moderate white support--must be selective. This is not to say that Negroes should abandon forever the notion...
...advocate of overwhelming firepower and the shock value of mass attack, Abrams will take to the battle an unalloyed respect for the men he will soon command. After his most recent slog through the boonies of South Viet Nam, he said: "You can't go out there and talk with the soldiers and officers without coming away inspired...