Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South China metropolis of Canton, a West German visitor was stopped cold by the sight of a corpse dangling from a traffic light. "What was his crime?" the traveler asked. His girl guide coolly explained that quite a few people are getting strung up in Canton because "they are political...
...fuses sight and sound into a single artistic unity. His people speak in a curious linguistic melange, basically Bengali but liberally daubed with English stock phrases. His musical background, which he himself composed, is a similar fluid mixture in which a line of Oriental melody moves imperceptibly toward a Western cadence...
Wright makes a call to action as well. But it is addressed, if to anyone outside the ghetto, to foundations rather than to the Federal government. In the political realm, he does call for a national lobby, for better communications, for organization. Yet he never loses sight of the necessity for exploring both sides of any question. His statements are couched in terms comprehensible to blacks and whites alike...
...rate the title song represents the new Beatles, the Beatles who have utter control over their audience, who can make them cheer, laugh at an unseen sight gag, and, best of all, shut up. "You're such a lovely audience, we'd like to take you home with us," sing the Beatles in one of the most obvious ironies of the album. Clearly they're thinking just the opposite, and have been for years. The song is a renunciation of their whole crowd-pleasing past, just as it is the realization of the artist's dream of total power over...
...Beatles are the ultimate symbols of the posh, respectable vie boheme. They live in the suburbs that the Rolling Stones Knock in their songs. They have never dropped out from society. They have never had to slum it to gain a sly, detached, enlightening line of sight on the status quo. They are idols to the hippies, prophets to the establishment, and fetishes to the teeny-boppers...