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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...S.B.P.P. has aptly obscure origins but appears to come from a Royal Canadian Air Force listing of fuzzy phrases. It was popularized in Washington by Philip Broughton, a U.S. Public Health Service official, who circulated it among civil servants and businessmen. A sort of mini-thesaurus of bafflegab, it consists of a three-column list of 30 overused but appropriately portentous words. Whenever a GS-14 or deputy assistant secretary needs an opaque phrase, he need only think of a three-digit number -any one will do as well as the next-and select the corresponding "buzz words" from...
...star-chamber courts that were created by the government to try cases related to the war. Whether the Supreme Court justices will dare to challenge those capricious representatives of the executive remains to be seen. But the star cham bers are clearly in need of some sort of control. Presided over by judge advocates with no legal training, those courts have allowed no pre-trial examination or right of appeal. Moreover, they have been ruling on both military and civilian matters. In addition to 5,000 army deserters tried since February, 700 civilians have been brought before...
...other side of the new disk urges activism of a different sort. Hey Jude, sung by Paul McCartney, liltingly exhorts a friend to overcome his fears and commit himself in love...
...singles released along with their own last week, the Beatles make a modest start toward that goal. One, produced by Paul McCartney, introduces 18-year-old Mary Hopkin, a Welsh folk singer with a high, clear soprano reminiscent of Folk Singer Joan Baez. Singing Those Were the Days, a sort of Mediterranean-style café song, she gives a gently swaying, lyrical performance. Another record, produced by George Harrison, offers Liverpool Rock Singer Jackie Lomax, 24, in a driving, bluesy delivery of a Harrison song, Sour Milk Sea. Then there is the 113-year-old Black Dyke Mills Band from...
...himself. "What the hell," he said, "I majored in directing at the Yale Drama School." Disdaining the usual directorial flourishes, he told his crew, Rachel-style: "I'm a virgin and I need your help." He coached Actress Woodward-his wife-in whispers and in a sort of private language. He had the camera dwell on her lovingly, so much so that one friend described the movie as Newman's "wallet." As a result, he infects the brief love affair with a tenuousness that everyone but Rachel can detect, and infuses the air of the small town with...