Word: slap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other observations of children in New York City form equally interesting pictures. Boys in black suits stand in the smooth white ground of a handball court-some playing, some waiting their turn. The court is silent though you can feel the slap of the ball against the hand, dangling outstretched, ready to play. The picture of boys in the city speaks in its starkness...
...using them. I would constantly think they were talking about my homosexuality behind my back. In my homosexual contacts, I'd try to be surreptitious, not telling my name or what kind of work I did. When I read about somebody being a pervert, it was like a slap in the face-my God, that's what...
...Brecht wanted to slap an audience into intellectual awareness so that it would correct the evils of the age, Artaud wanted to gore it into a blood-dripping emotional awareness of the anguish of the age; Among those who have most notably tried to follow Artaud's precepts in the modern theater are Julian Beck and Judith Malina's Living Theater, British Director Peter Brook (Marat/ Sade) and Director Jerzy Gro-towski with his Polish Laboratory Theater. The Living Theater is sloppy, Brook is marvelously disciplined but a trifle too cerebral, and Grotowski combines fantastic discipline with lacerating...
Roberts called the convocation idea "an elaborate charade," which would have the same "substantive political impact" as a regular vote. He added that the avoidance of a regular Faculty vote would, at the same time, "blunt the motion's moral thrust" and act as "a slap at student protest...
Always trying in every way to imitate the giants of journalism, the CRIMSON has generally followed this rule. Now and then a reporter may self indulgently slap a troublesome news source: "Professor so and so refused to answer questions about..." "The Dean could not be reached at his home or anywhere else on the Eastern Seaboard for comment last night." But more often the routine story of how the news is gathered remains where it belongs, far off the front page...