Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angels is emphasized by the excellent short which preceds it. Lonely Boy, a 15-minute documentary on Paul Anka, displays the singer's world with wild irony. Interviews are shot full in the face, with quick cuts to the hands or facial features to support a verbal point. (Anke's manager: "The boy is great, simply great. We haven't seen such a talent in five hundred years." Anka: "I'm just using the talent I was given to make people happy.") The shots of Anka's performances are superb: a focus on the singer, his face, then a quick...
Monday, November 29 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Musical Atoms-A Study of Intervals," illustrated with performances of Brahms, Vaughan Williams and Wagner, accompanied by verbal explanations from Bernstein...
There was more than verbal violence in Kashmir itself. Many-perhaps a majority-of the 3.5 million inhabitants of Indian-held Kashmir are strongly inclined toward union with Pakistan and are letting the Indian-controlled government know it. The government has struck back sternly, suspending civil rights, closing schools and universities, centers of the protests, and jailing pro-Pakistan politicians. Units of the 30,000-man India-controlled police force have waded into demonstrators and beaten scores to the ground with their lathis (long, steel-tipped staves). Fearing a full-scale revolt, government officials protect their homes with sandbags...
...chronicle of carnival is a commonplace of fashionable fiction, but this attempt is anything but commonplace. Author Cole, a 32-year-old lecturer in the humanities at M.I.T., has wit, charm, timing, a flair with atmosphere, a felicity of verbal gesture, a feeling for character so insidious it persuades the reader that every person of the drama is really just an unlived aspect of his own self. An End to Chivalry is a beginning of brilliance...
Although he usually restricts himself to verbal combat, Farmer sometimes leads forays into the field. In 1961, his first year as CORE chief, he directed and rode on the first Freedom Ride--thereby earning himself a month in a Mississippi jail. During August of 1963 he narrowly evaded pursuing Louisiana Klansmen by hiding in a mortuary and slipping out in the back of a hearse...