Word: wasteland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complicated plots of a half dozen of the soapers. ("Those organs!" says Rubinstein, holding his nose and unmistakably imitating their quavering tone.) William Buckley says that he finds no time for TV, but Chicago Lawyer Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission chairman who described TV as a "vast wasteland," still watches fairly regularly. Among his favorites: Get Smart...
What submerges from Dylan's thought poems is a surrealistic Yoknapatawpha Country, a rich wasteland crossed by Highway 61 and the holy slow train. Enter at your peril. There are no lumberjacks to give you facts when Dylan, riding on a radiant electronic bass, attacks your imagination. You pay your money to watch the geek, but the viscous torrent of picture words doubles you on yourself. You think very hard about nothing, narcissim at 33 and 1/3, until you like Mr. Jones "know something's happening but you don't know what...
...referred to as residents. The project was begun seven years ago by Harvard and Radcliffe volunteers on the Phillips Brooks House hospitals committee who decided that their efforts would be most useful with mental patients. The students moved from the psvchiatric division of Massachusetts General Hospital to the mammoth wasteland of the Metropolitan State Hospital for the Mentally Ill, where in all but a few wards the ratio of patients to psychiatrists is about 600 to 1. The volunteers discovered that patients' responses to individual attention were only sporadically encouraging, and, puzzled, ten of them decided to find...
...state of Israel is an island of Western culture, freedom and law in a morass of premedieval hate. The land "carved from the land of the Arabs" was, under Arab rule, a desert; it is now a rose garden in a wasteland of thorns. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, and the only nation in that area openly siding with the U.S. in the international power struggle...
...Midnight Idol," your cover story on the Johnny Carson phenomenon and on television in general [May 19], was excellent. Carson is a refreshing breeze in what is literally a wasteland, with the exception of an occasional documentary or sports event...