Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...M.I.T. team has traditionally been dismissed as weak. In the past few years though, the Engineers have put up more of a flight than expected. As coach Jack Barnaby said after close matches last year, "The same thing happens every year. We're just too overconfident...
...rifle out their apartment window and joining in the blood bath. Director Alan Arkin has staged all this with the frenzy and craziness we associate with Feiffer's art work, and his cast is perfect--daffy and ludicrous, with enough of a foothold in reality to render the whole thing at once hilarious and frightening...
...into that sort of thing, 100 Riflesproves a swell massacre, teeming with hatred, passion, sex emotion, plot, O God all sorts of things like that. I dimly registered that Gries had shot it well and put it together much better than he had Will Penny, and cheered with a 900 per cent black audience as Jim Brown made passionate love to Raquel Welch. Fernando Lamas, looking almost as good as he did in all those Esther Williams pictures, made a great slimy villain bent on exterminating all those nice Yaqui Indians, and the magnificent Miss Welch doesn...
...second thing that Pusey's defense of ROTC showed was the political character of the issue. ROTC is not here to help students fulfill their military obligations in the easiest way (C.O.'s have not been given the same opportunity). And it is not here to preserve the "freedom from interference" or the neutrality of the University. (Bending over backwards, manipulating laws, and overruling Faculty decisions to satisfy the Pentagon is hardly preserving independence, and contracting with the Army to provide officers to fight the Vietnamese is hardly neutral). President Pusey clearly stated the reasons for ROTC's presence...
...today. They were the obverse of the solid moral copper coins given to good little Victorian children by the avuncular Establishment. His characters, like the "Old Person of Cadiz" or "Young Lady of Clare," are rarely righteous, and when they do practice virtue, it often goes refreshingly unrewarded. One thing this age will never really understand about Lear: his penchant for the nonporno limerick...