Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home or on the road, Barry Goldwater is conscious that he rides an ever growing popular wave-one that could conceivably make him the party's presidential standard-bearer in 1964. New G.O.P. Chairman William Miller warmly suggested a Goldwater-Rockefeller ticket in the next campaign if Richard Nixon does not run. But Goldwater is quite aware of the handicaps he would have to overcome. As a champion of states' rights, Goldwater has paid court to white Southern Democrats and has helped make Republicans respectable south of the Mason-Dixon line-but at the real risk of earning...
Harvard students, being Harvard students, had other things on their minds last year. National magazines were wondering whether a wave of conservation or at least of political activism was sweeping college campuses, and their correspondents looked first to Harvard. Were Harvard students becoming more conservative? More politically active...
...temperament, nothing succeeds like excess, and Yeats preached the dogma of excess as an esthetic necessity. He applauded Shelley for agreeing with Blake "that Reason not only created Ugliness, but all other evils." Such statements seem slightly more reasonable when Yeats is placed where he belongs, with the first wave of what might be called the Counter-Industrial Revolution. His obsession with myths, magic and symbols was a poet's way of fighting the machine. In a poet's intuitive fashion, he was plumbing the "collective unconscious" before Jung labeled it, celebrating the irrational before Freud discovered...
...ITALIAN: Violent Summer is an old-wave film about a short, sensuous, foredoomed affair played out in Fascist Italy. In Two Women, mother (Sophia Loren) and daughter (Eleonora Brown), prove that in World War II Italy, only those who suffer can love. La Dolce Vita is a sprawling, formless masterpiece of modern Rome's spiritual depravity and sexual excess, and L'Avventura is another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates...
Violent Summer (in Italian). An old wave film of a short, sensuous, foredoomed affair played out in Fascist Italy...