Word: stools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minded Gigolo" (Chance Wayne in Sweet Bird of Youth), and "The Martyr as Put-Upon Professor" (Charles Van Doren, self-proclaimed victim of the TV quiz riggings). The ultimate in 20th century "compassion" is to declare God irresponsible. In a Jules Feiffer cartoon a kindly chap standing on a stool concludes his monologue with God thus: "Listen up there-if you ever start a war, I'll understand. It's an attention-getting device. It's not your fault you're emotionally immature...
Clamps off the Stool. Last week Miller patiently labored on his acceptance speech, in which he recalled how as a child he had made a footstool in the school shop, glued and clamped the pieces together, and then had been surprised and pleased that it supported his 200-lb. instructor...
...very different in shape and size and function ... I feel that the most important accomplishment of these first years may well have been that the council has stayed together-that the glue has had a chance to set. At the same time it is true-both with the foot stool and with the National Council-that there comes a time when the clamps must be taken off and we must have the courage to put the instrument to the full use for which it was fashioned...
...mildly enough with Round i, in which Cage and Pianist David Tudor sat at different pianos alternately plunking notes at up to 20-second intervals. Presently Dancer Merce Cunningham started undulating in symbolic suggestion of an embryo wriggling toward manhood. By Round 3, when Cage was thumping his piano stool with a rock, the restive audience began to jeer. The jeers grew in Round 4. as Cage and Tudor launched into a piano duet, playing chords with their elbows while assaulting the piano's innards with knives and pieces of tin. After Round 6, in which Cage slammed...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A freelance writer turns stool pigeon and the D.A. moves in on the "Carlton Literary Service." Fresh from the headlines, Dishonor System deals with ghostwriting on a Midwest campus...