Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it may be some time before Guthrie matches Restaurant again. Meantime, his satire may not bite but it nips playfully, and his comic drawl is impeccably timed. The Pause of Mr. Claus begins with a monologue spoofing the FBI, launches into a song about how Santa Claus is suspect because of his red suit and long hair, ends with the refrain: "Why do police guys beat on peace guys...
...Translator Sir: Yasunari Kawabata's award of the Nobel Prize for literature [Oct. 25] could not be more deserving. His Snow Country is a book to read, reread and to treasure. But it can be read only in English by most of us, and I strongly suspect that the beautiful translation by Edward G. Seidensticker, which makes this possible, may have played a large part in attracting the attention of the panel. Your excellent article is lacking only in that it does not quote from his introduction to Snow Country: "In Snow Country we come upon the roaring silence...
Joking, frequently punning, becomes an obsession in the dialogue, not to relieve tension or to underline the callousness present in those following the strangler, but simply, it seems, to flesh out a weak plot with vaudeville routines that would have left the Old Howard crowd stone cold. One suspect, a wholesale grocer who is termed a "pickle salesman" by the police, sheepishly confesses that he has slept with about 300 different women in the last six months. "My, you've been a busy little beaver," a detective quips. Not to be outdone, his sidekick adds, "Find out what diet...
Simons also says that the mystique of infallibility "has not succeeded in saving the Church, its Popes, Bishops and other members from error and ignorance." Because of the church's claim to infallibility, "even her good arguments cease to be effective. Behind them outsiders suspect specious pleadings, not honest attempts to find the truth." Therefore, Simons concludes, "belief in infallibility is an obstacle to progress and the Gospel's effectiveness." It is also, more obviously, an obstacle to Christian unity. Simons argues that the demands of ecumenicism also justify the church's abandonment of the infallibility claim...
Given the fact that "The Experience" is being funded through a federal grant the Boston Redevelopment Agency has received as part of an experimental urban beautification program, one can't help but suspect the city is really trying to drive the hippies away for good by giving them too much of their own medicine. If the attempts stay this tepid, boredom may become Boston's secret weapon...