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...inveigh against such "illiterate filth." "Have what passed for being art forms ever before been so drenched and impregnated with erotic obsessions, so insanely preoccupied with our animal nature and its appetites?" demanded Muggeridge. "Let a collection of yahoos but take off their clothes, cavort about the stage and yell obscenities and a great breakthrough in dramatic art is announced and applauded." Britain's Minister for the Arts, Jennie Lee, was not impressed. "Nonsense," she said. "The new must by its nature include things which are not acceptable to everyone...
...eyewitness to the uproar in the streets during the Democratic Convention, his reaction is detached and too concerned with the pattern of the old politics. He offers little more than a neat categorization of the participants in such efforts. There are "the curious . . . who want to be able to yell, 'I seen it, I seen it, I seen it myself.' " Next, "the crazies," identified by "their diseases (mainly venereal), their health (decayed from malnutrition and drugs) and the disturbances, rarely dangerous, of their minds." Then "the innocents [whose] morality urges them to stand witness for a cause...
...stared at by 100 girls to get to see one. All the apparatus of bells, pink slips, tags, and signing in for parietals makes it a Special Occasion every time a boy comes, when everyone would be happier if it could be Just Dropping By. Girls are supposed to yell "Man on" when they bring their visitors upstairs and put a sign on the door after they have evacuated their roommate to leering suppositions underlying these procedures put the focus on just what the authorities are presumably trying to plaster over...
...informal at times that some of the participants were actually shouting at the bishops. The prelates, in turn, took their knocks with considerable grace. When he was asked how Catholics could communicate better with their bishops, the Most Rev. Peter L. Gerety of Portland, Me., replied: "Just yell." One priest complained angrily that he had just been "slandered across the diocese by my bishop." Boise's Bishop Sylvester W. Treinen, for his part, said: "I've taken more guff from priests than I've given...
Yale's Neil Wilkof and Tom Warren left town without communicating information about their performances or the well-deserved congratulations. Somewhere along the 26-mile route, Fallows saw Warren clutch his leg in agony and yell, "My God, my God, it's my leg." Warren took to the sidewalk, reclined, and was never seen again...