Word: texts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...side of the visitors' center is dominated by a diorama of the Battle of Lexington. The British are neatly lined up against a retreating group of outnumbered colonials. The text under the display says that the approaching British heard the drum roll the colonials used to summon their men and interpreted it as a call to battle. The ordered the Minute-Men to disperse. Shooting began when they didn...
...shift in feeling has set in. As times grow more difficult, the new looks less promising; the settled old ways take on new luster. Anyone too inclined to idealize the countrified past, however, or dote on the imagined joys of continuity, might do well to study, as a cautionary text, this extraordinary portrait of an English village. Akenfield is a pseudonym for a real agricultural village of 300 souls about 90 miles and-until recently-several cultural centuries removed from London. "On the face of it," remarks Ronald Blythe, "it is the kind of place in which an Englishman...
...forced him to observe a rendering which was very likely different from his own. But it is good, too, because it brings the play closer to the audience and forces them, even if by its aberrations, to consider nuances and ramifications which often do not arise spontaneously from the text. Having mentioned this, one can consider the play...
...digested." It is true that a commentator can assure himself of a vast automatic audience by following the President on the air, and the instant rebuttals or analyses are often feeble. But in the case of the Viet Nam speech, reporters had an hour to study the text before Nixon spoke; they were also briefed on the contents by White House advisers so that they were not speaking entirely off the cuff in their critiques. Besides, the President's right (purely customary) to use television whenever he chooses is an extremely powerful weapon-some think too powerful. Says...
Graham B. Blaine. Jr.. psychiatric chief at Harvard's University Health Services, gave his own version of the Bettelheim argument in a speech to the American Social Health Association on November 1. The text of the speech-entitled "What's Behind the Youth Rebellion?"-was reprinted in the magazine section of last Sunday's Herald-Traveler...