Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are impressions of Greece which a Harvard graduate student brought home from a summer spent touring that nation, as he told them to Allyson Mae '69. The story is clearly biased against the regime, but, we hope, it's also biased in the favor of truth. The student discusses the campaign which the regime was waging to pass its new constitution, the antilibertarian aspects of the document, and American involvement with the regime. As expected, the constitution, which the Sept. 25 issue of Le Monde denounced for making Greece an "undemocratic democracy," was passed in a referendum last weekend...
...public manner. "How did you find America?" one reporter asked them. "Turn left at Greenland," John said. "We were funny at press conferences because it was all a joke...you can't put over how you really are. Newspapers always get things wrong." Newspapers always get things wrong; a truth we all learned from Rosenthal's hilarious reporting from Columbia. So why not put them on. "What do you think of Beethoven?" "I love him," said Ringo. "Especially his poems." Fuck them all if they think we're stupid...
...truth, the Beatles didn't write too much of their music at the time, but they weren't too resrained onstage either. They "played loud and wild and looked scruffy...they had...their own new sound...A sound you had to run away and hide your ears from, or go as wild and ecstatisc as the people producing it...It was a new sound but it was being made by people who were like the audience, natural, unaffected, unsmooth...
...millionaire flags down a 17-year-old seaman and an aging girl-about-town (Jeanne Moreau) and puts them in his sumptuous bedchamber. The sailor, he cackles, will one day tell the story of his exploit-and for the first time in history, that yarn will be founded on truth...
...best be seen-or rather heard-in Glossolalia. He uses the mystical notion of speaking in tongues as a pointed metaphor in his guerrilla war against static literary forms. More a soothsayer's scripture than prose fiction, the piece mimics the ancient ritual that attempts to divine the truth with spontaneous word patterns and nonsense syllables. Concludes Barth: "The sense-lessest babble, could we ken it, might disclose a dark message, or prayer...