Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30-noon). Viewers join oceanographers and marine biologists in exploring "The World Beneath the Sea" via underwater films, lab tests of a shark's hearing and vision, and talk about the sea as a source of food, oil and diamonds...
...time for Mailer to write his "big novel," and it is said that he's hard at work on it. He's 44, and his moment is at hand; can he produce a book so large in vision, so perfect in execution, that the entire fabric of the national character is irrevocably altered? In its agony, the country cries out, he feels, for such a book, such a man. Mailer thinks he's got the guts and the talent to pull it off. That he has the personal grace and the devotion of a champion is conceded...
...last vestige from the old "religious" days of Reading Dynamics which has since been altered is the "Breakthrough," which denotes the abrupt attainment of dynamic reading. Kilgo desrcibes his Breakthrough in an unmistakably religious manner, "It was as if I was in a trance. My vision blurred and suddenly I could see the entire page in one glance. It was induced by rhythmic repetition over the same page many times." The term has been dropped, in favor of a more gradual description of success, because it was not conducive to profit making. "We have been instructed not to talk about...
...this film first read Joyce quite profoundly. They discovered not only some of his wildest humor, but also his deepest tenderness, and his sense of how quickly the mind, in its movements, can leap from tenderness to humor, or from deep sorrow to humor. They discovered too Joyce's vision of man's hope, the optimistic vitality epitomized by Molly Bloom (Barbara Jefford), the Earth Mother, but well-represented in her husband (the "womanly man") Leopold. In the vital mind of Molly or Leopold, the choice is humor when humor and sorrow coincide. The Blooms opt for Joy: at Paddy...
They can vote in today's referendum to put a quota on the number of boys allowed in an evening. The vision of turning away the end of the line is truly absurd. Or they can vote to keep out grad students, who don't use reserve books anyway. Or they can vote to get rid of the boys altogether. Cliffies should know better...