Word: touch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shakespeare festivals are still a mainstay of summer theater, but more and more the Bard's works are blended with a touch of contemporary...
...into an angry crowd that was clamoring menacingly for more schools, and wound up bobbing on men's shoulders above a cheering throng. Lindsay's tactics struck cynics as canny politicking. Undeniably, though, the mayor and top city officials were visible to their lowliest constituents and in touch with them...
While being in touch would not assure New York or any city of trouble-free weeks ahead, it was a psychologically important part of the battle. Said Martin Luther King last week: "In Watts last year, I asked a rioter what he had gained from his smashing and looting and killing. He told me, 'We made them pay attention to us.' " Really paying attention means, as John Lindsay has shown, trying to do something about housing, sanitation, schools and jobs. Only through responsible and responsive public action to meet the Negroes' needs can white officialdom effectively inspire...
...knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 boils down to something like this: the knowledge that he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions-a knowledge not gained by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love-the human experiences and emotions of this earth; and perhaps, too, a little faith and a little reverence for the things you cannot...
...meantime, Lavin said he will keep in touch with foundations and foreign governments which might contribute the library it additional funds are needed. Sixty countries have expressed interest in the project and some have already made anonymous donations...