Word: utters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McLuhan, 56, to come down for a year's guest professorship. In his very first lecture, McLuhan told his 178 students that the Viet Nam war is "an all-outeducational effort" and that TV is "an Xray machine." The one student who tried to take notes dissolved in utter confusion. But the rest were turned on-to say nothing of the reporters at a press conference where McLuhan went on about orchestra conductors ("janitors") and the separation of church and state ("outlived its usefulness"). "It was a good show," said campus Editor George Thomas. "He performed wonderfully...
Faced with O'Neill's rhetorical soliloquies and the awkward device of having characters utter their unspoken thoughts, Director José Quintero apparently folded his hands in slothful reverence. When it came to cutting the script by three hours, however, he became indiscriminately agile, severing vital tendons of continuity, meaning, mood and theme. O'Neill had specified that the play be destroyed if he could not revise it, and after a fashion, Quintero has obliged. What remains is a remnant of O'Neill's melancholy conviction that hell hath no fury quite like a human...
...shoot at last week were her own monthold world records in the 400-meter free style (4 min. 32.6 sec.) and the 1,500-meter freestyle (18 min. 11.1 sec.). She shot 'em dead. First, she lopped 3.6 sec. off her 400-meter mark. Then, to the utter astonishment of everybody but herself, she churned through the 1,500 meters in an incredible 17 min. 50.2 sec.-20.9 sec. faster than any other woman has ever swum that distance. Was she proud? Was she pleased? She was disappointed. "I missed what I wanted," she grumped. "I figured on doing...
...rate the title song represents the new Beatles, the Beatles who have utter control over their audience, who can make them cheer, laugh at an unseen sight gag, and, best of all, shut up. "You're such a lovely audience, we'd like to take you home with us," sing the Beatles in one of the most obvious ironies of the album. Clearly they're thinking just the opposite, and have been for years. The song is a renunciation of their whole crowd-pleasing past, just as it is the realization of the artist's dream of total power over...
...voice begins, "I read the news today, oh boy,"--a strange, sad phrase which grows heavier as the song grows more hallucinatory. At first the news is about the Guiness heir, son of a Beer peer, dying in his Lotus elan, sad waste of youth, but comic in its utter meaningless. The singer turns on and the song turns more dreamlike, ushering forth a complex metaphor to rank with Dylan's best. "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire/ And though the holes were rather small/ They had to count them all..."--this refers to Scotland Yard's search for bodies...