Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youngsters immerse themselves in noise that is so uncomfortable to their elders? A Florida teenager explained: "The sounds embalm you. They numb you. You don't want to hear others talk. You don't want to talk. You don't know what to say to each other anyway." So why listen? And, eventually...
...chronically in pain, unappeasably romantic, listening in self-pity and dread to time's metronome ticking away with deadly austerity. Paul Scofield profiles Laurie with meticulous care, but he cannot quite manage that sudden, sneering, swooping descent into vulgarity that Osborne demands. When Scofield has to talk about some woman giving "the golden sanitary towel award," he seems to be holding the line out at arm's length between a fastidious thumb and forefinger...
Janis Joplin is hooked. She has to turn on almost every night. "I'm on an audience trip," she says. "When I go on stage to sing, it's like the 'rush' that people experience when they take heavy dope. I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me. Sex is the closest I can come to explaining it, but it's more than sex. I get stoned from happiness. I want to do it until it isn't there any more...
Amid widespread talk about a slower pace in the U.S. economy, corporate profits at the halfway mark of 1968 were remarkably handsome. According to a Wall Street Journal survey of 457 major corporations, second-quarter profits were up 10% from the same period of 1967. Largest gainer was the rubber industry, with earnings of nine companies bouncing...
...could talk for hours about Nixon, Eisenhower, Dewey, or Humphrey," boasted James McCab '17, "but what's-his-name, you know that guy you just asked me about, nobody has ever heard...