Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These confusions were at least partially resolved in the extraordinary view of power in United States society which permeated Gardner's three lectures. Here he was explicit: we should stop abusing political leaders and the military-industrial complex and admit that "perhaps no one is in charge." And in the first lecture he commented ominously, "Only those who know the Federal Government very well indeed know how disinclined it is to think in the largest terms about the nation's future." Right or wrong, the theory is an ingenious one, and like much of Gardner's writing it rings with...
Anne de Saint Phalle's critique of dorm life from a strictly social and psychological point of view is the best I have ever seen on this subject...
Some of the marvels fashioned by the craftsmen of those eras could be seen last week at Sotheby's in London, where 142 objects from the collection of the late Melvin Gutman went on view (see color). Gutman was a strange man. Son of a Wall Street stockbroker, he made a fortune in the stock market, and at the age of 29 conceived a passion for antique jewelry. He never married, and for the last 34 years of his life he never strayed far from his Manhattan apartment. When he died last year...
...racked up 20-plus goals but inevitably played in the shadow of Bobby Hull. "In Chicago," he recalls, "they called me a garbage collector. They said I picked up Bobby's garbage for points." More shade was cast by General Manager Tommy Ivan, who took a dim view of Esposito's escapades and traded him to Boston after the 1966-67 season. His antics are still puerile (he recently hid the luggage of Boston General Manager Milt Schmidt in a hotel lobby). Still, Coach Harry Sinden concedes, "We need his loosey-goosey style around the dressing room...
...mother took a dim view of my ambitions," she recalls. "She threw at me a copy of The Carpetbaggers. 'Read this,' she said, 'and tell me if that really is the kind of career you want.' " Raquel studied the book like a road map. "It was a tremendous help to me," she says, "because from it I learned what not to do. I made up my mind that Hollywood is not a place filled with sinister characters lurking in half-shadows waiting to seduce virgins. It's a place filled with hardheaded business people...