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...CANT fight the media. James Lipton wanted to enrich the language. He was disappointed by the failure of slang to make English more exciting. "No sweat and out of sight begin to lose their charm on the fiftieth hearing, and groovy, Ricky, wiggy, unreal, and wild, by pushing out nearly every other adjective in a generation's speech, don't expand the language, they diminish it," he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Exaltation of Larks | 1/29/1969 | See Source »

...switched at an early age to a public school with special facilities for the blind, such as Braille lessons. After seventh grade David went through the regular public school system. He feels that this was the best thing he could have done. A residential school is a "very unreal environment," he said. "It is a closed stale society, ignorant of the outside world. The transition from a school for the blind to a sighted university is almost impossible...

Author: By Laura R. Benjamin, | Title: Being Blind at Harvard | 1/16/1969 | See Source »

...outrageously unrealistic, they made a kind of claim to be art. Edelmann and Submarine obviously belong to this tradition rather than Disney's. He chooses to seize attitudes rather than to simulate motion. His characters strut, jerk and visually stutter across landscapes that never were. The result is unreal and enormously evocative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: NEW MAGIC IN ANIMATION | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...this, and much more in the book, is fine. But what is troubling is a question that Zinn raises in the first chapter, but never answers. Left unanswered, it seems to haunt and make slightly unreal all of the emotional energy of Zinn's attack on the Court and American society. If we justify one act of civil disobedience, he asks...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Zinn V. Fortas | 12/14/1968 | See Source »

...attempt to get an economic and political share of the American pie," but insisted that it is uniquely American and unrelated to European theories of class struggle. Although most participants denounced the idea of black separatism-John Oakes, editor of the New York Times editorial page, called it "impractical, unreal and immoral"-CORE Director Roy Innis unflinchingly defended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: Pondering the Problems | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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