Word: solemnizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With no effort at all one can find inaccurate epithets (Camus' language is "stately ... an inexhaustible self-perpetuating oratory); mixed metaphors ("Saint Genet is a cancer of a book, grotesquely vebose, its cargo of brilliant ideas borne aloft by a tone of viscous soleminity and by ghastly repetitiveness"); solemn statements of the obvious ("The truth is, some works of theater may be judged primarily as of works of literature, others and attempts to be "in" ("those four wonderful Floppy Raggedy Andy dolls, the Beatles...
...Viet Nam, Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, characteristically seized the occasion to advocate a new and radical departure from U.S. strategy. What Fulbright proposed last week was a grand design to settle the future of Southeast Asia by means of a solemn accord with Communist China to neutralize the entire area. "Unless," he said, "we are prepared to fight a general war to eliminate the effects of Chinese power in all of Southeast Asia, we have no alternative but to seek a general accommodation." He recommended that "we indicate to the Chinese that...
...Shirley Knight, as Polly, reads gentle truth into every word and gesture. Leading the second rank, Candice Bergen, as the Lesbian "Lakey," is a stunning presence. Most important of the men in their lives are Larry Hagman and James Broderick, with Hal Holbrook contributing some solemn hilarity as a failed leftist philanderer who seems unable to assimilate the benefits of psychoanalysis...
...experience--of the opportunity to influence the choice of powerful overseers; it virtually precludes representation of younger, more concerned men on the Board; and it encourages voting along class lines. The five years out of college will not provide any kind of wisdom indispensible to the solemn task of choosing overseers. This rule, an apparent holdover from Reconstruction days, should be abolished...
...might, and should, have been a historic debate, a solemn, searching in quiry into the fundamental aims, origins and prospects of America's deepening commitment to a land war in Asia...