Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strings had a pleasing, gentle attack. Like the Schubert, the Mozart was alive, and never dull. Nevertheless, something was missing or misplaced. It was as if the excitement had become confused with the music, so that the detachment by Mozart was absent. Rather than feeling invited to view a large movement from above, the listener was immersed in the music, running after phrase upon phrase. Perhaps sharper contrasts of dynamics or articulation would have made the Mozart as enjoyable as the Schubert...
...thus responds by talking of de-centralization of authority as a means of making the government accountable to the people. Bundy's contrary position, insisting on a wider role for government, would be less valid if the radical view consisted of more than slogans that sound instinctively right. We are justified in asking for more concrete and practical proposals from the left to deal with the problems of complex, technological society...
From this romantic point of view, Michèle covered the Viet Nam war for nine months, and indeed her life seemed charmed. Deciding to motor the whole length of South Viet Nam, she made 400 miles before the Viet Cong captured her. They treated her considerately, even sharing their tunnel with her during a U.S. air strike. Later, she wrote a vivid article for LIFE Interna tional, in which she stressed her captors' gentleness and perseverance. She contributed battle footage to an anti-U.S. film, Far from Vietnam; a book of hers about...
...rarefied critical circles, it is used with force and conviction in Buffalo, where the cab drivers lecture their fares on the horror of the Albright-Knox's modern art, and where Foss reminds his listeners that the word avant-garde is military in origin. The artist, in his view, is meant to act as a sort of spiritual shock-trooper for society, forcing it to become aware of new conflicts and realities whether it wants...
...Ministry--composed of chaplains from 12 Cambridge churches--will make no attempt to talk students into opposing the draft. "We don't intend to have any stated view towards the draft," said the Reverend Charles P. Price. "We are here to clarify issues and help students make up their own minds about the draft rather than to direct them to a certain end," he added...