Word: utterances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...startling act of confrontation. Here, Warhol was saying, is the world you inhabit but do not see. High art is your escape route from its crudities. But why escape? Why not accept it as your cultural ground, he demanded, since "pop art is liking things." Says Andy with utter sincerity: "I want to be a machine" -which to him means never to make choices. Warhol's machinery is that of a receiving station...
What I'm trying to say, the impression I'm trying to create, is one of total fear, absolute and utter paranoia. If you "looked suspicious" (and you know what that means) you could not leave the sanctuaries of the three downtown universities without fear of getting arrested. You could not walk down a street or drive a car without being stopped repeatedly, questioned and often arrested. And you could never go anywhere alone. If you did, if you had no witnesses around, you were risking a lot of pain. I remember driving around Washington Tuesday morning, feeling like...
...letters, if they are authentic, indicate that Sister Elizabeth wrote to Berrigan "in utter confidence" on Aug. 20, 1970, that she had attended a meeting in Connecticut at which a plan "to kidnap -in our terminology make a citizen's arrest of-someone like Henry Kissinger" was discussed. He was picked "because of his influence as policymaker yet sans Cabinet status, he would not be as much protected as one of the bigger wigs," and because "he is a bachelor, which would mean if he were so guarded, he would be anxious to have unguarded moments where he could...
...possibly mass arrests. No matter what they do, the city will be shut down. During a normal rush hour a single accident on Connecticut Avenue is enough to delay traffic for half an hour. A thousand people sitting in the street, mass arrests, and tear gas would cause utter chaos...
...quotes Chairman Daniel Bell's advice to "think wild." Then he shows how little wild thinking anybody dared to do, even Doomsday Prophet Herman Kahn, who came equipped with statistics, charts and projections. "What is surprising about Kahn's world view," comments Thompson, "is its utter dearth of imagination...