Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, the year of ecology, a word derived from the Greek oikos, meaning "house." In modern usage, ecology is the study of nature's house or environment, including man's complex dependence on a bewildering variety of other creatures and life processes...
...conception, Adam and Eve are unable to bear "the terrible burden of immortality." They opt instead for a mortal span of 1,000 years, and their fallen heirs settle for progressively less. At last, in the 20th century, man realizes that his days have grown far too short. He is only a vessel of the life force that is evolving along "the path to godhead," and if civilization is to advance or even survive, he must learn to live to a riper, wiser age. Over the next 300 centuries, he begins working his way back to Adam...
...Methuselah takes on life and force most often in its acting. Paul Curran and Harry Lomax gleefully caricature Lloyd George and Herbert Asquith as, respectively, fatuous and feckless. Charles Kay, made up to resemble Shaw, touchingly yet comically portrays one of the last of the 31st century's "short-livers"; Philip Locke and Jeanne Watts lend a glint of intellectual ecstasy to the bald, sexless ancients of the future. In such performances, the strands of Shaw's sometimes garrulous argument are tuned to a fine pitch, so that only a few maxims thump through ungraced by melody...
...bomp-ba bomp-pa bomp? Who put the ram in the ram-a-lam a-ding-dong?" or the 50-odd repetitions of sha-da-da-da-da in the song called Get a Job. Boston Disk Jockey Steve Seagull thinks that the new interest is a short-time summer thing that has something to do with this primitivism. According to Seagull, "Rock 'n' roll is perfect beach music-like it just says 'pizza stand, convertible and soft summer nights.' It's nice simple music and people sometimes like that. It talks about...
...loan from Nelson Rockefeller and sold profitably last year). A Kennedy liberal, Braden headed California's board of education, a post in which he clashed often with Max Rafferty, the reactionary state superintendent. This journalistic odd couple-Braden is tall, wiry and intense, Mankiewicz is short, round-faced and bemused -launched their project in the belief that most columns "are lousy" and fail to express a "sense of outrage." Yet the two have developed a detached style, garnished with historical and literary references, which mutes their anger. They have assailed such targets as the war in Viet...