Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind cannot conceive unreal things...
...whole elaborately-conceived spectacle is its museum-like quality: the generals watching the action from the heights above the valley are clearly aware that they are witnessing not the Light Brigade charging, but the Charge of the Light Brigade. Therefore the whole Crimean climax of the film is unreal, as any portrayal of history must be when the actors are depicted as being aware of history. The film is curiously unsubstantial: its action could only have been unconvincing, and more importantly, the meaning of it all never really becomes clear...
Clarence James '72 said "Lectures consist of sitting around and telling stories which may be interesting but most often are unreal." James also felt that such an approach led to a total misrepresentation of facts about the history of black people...
...Communism was being debated behind closed doors in both Prague and Moscow. Dubcek and Cernik were flown off to Moscow in a Soviet military jet. The Czechoslovaks at first broadcast reports that Dubcek had been killed, but that was cleared up in one of the many weird, almost unreal vignettes of the week. Dubcek's mother marched in to see the local Soviet commander in Bratislava, demanding to know what the Russians had done with her son. Slightly dumfounded, the Russian officer told her: "We are negotiating with...
Compared with the Miami riot, the scene in Convention Hall seemed a little unreal at times. All political conventions, of course, convey a certain air of fantasy. But last week's assembly went somewhat further than usual in this respect because of the lack of real contention over men or issues. The very idea of nominating a self-proclaimed "unknown quantity" such as Agnew hardly helped. Neither did the tasteless opulence of Miami Beach or the well-coiffured, well-dressed appearance of the delegates. "They're nice people," said one big-city Northern Senator, "but they've just never ridden...