Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missteps of the "fat Jap" or "Polack" variety for a few weeks. He has long since repented having called Humphrey "soft on Communism." But lately his political prose has acquired an almost Wallaceite ring. In Jacksonville last week he told a rally: "When little old ladies have to wear tennis shoes so they can outleg the criminals on city streets, there's something wrong. When arson and larceny and the murder of law-enforcement officials become stylish forms of dissent in the country, then there's something very wrong with what's going...
...pumpernickel into bits and passes them through the audience-an artistic communion that both engages the viewers' participation and sets the group's humanistic tone. "All of our shows are for good and against evil," insists Schumann. They are played in stark terms. In Reiteration, the actors wear grotesque masks; one wears a skull, another a gas mask, others are in oriental or black face, While Schumann announces each scene, the actors walk through a slow-motion allegory condemning the Viet...
What bugs Rowan and Martin is how long they will be able to sustain the breakneck pace of Laugh-In. At times, the novelty of the show threatens to wear thin. Some of the jokes are too inside; some of this season's new bits, such as the recitation of old, out-of-context punch lines and the "Fun Couple" sketches, fail to work. Says Rowan: "When you take on a show that doesn't fill time, that doesn't come on with singers and dancers as a copout, that is nothing but comedy material-the well...
...school upheaval started when blacks at Dorchester's English High School demanded permission to form an all black Afro-American Club and to wear African dashikis instead of the customary coats and ties. English's headmaster granted the dress request, but the School Department refused to allow the blacks to form their own club. The blacks walked out, and were joined by white students protesting the coat and tie rule...
...There is a fundamental question of autonomy here," Kaplan said. "Are the guys in each House going to be allowed to decide what they are going to wear...