Word: tinkering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough for Lilith, but it is not for the play. The ascetic longevity of the ancients is, of course, Shaw's metaphor for a nobler human development. But for this metaphor to be effective, the audience must will it into life, like a sort of metaphysical Tinker Bell. Faced with an imagined future where imperfect infants are put to death, where sex is outgrown at the age of four and where life's true realm is pure, icy mind, most playgoers simply will not aspire to it. Not in a thousand years...
...youths had a constitutional right to wear black arm bands to school as a protest against the war in Viet Nam. Among the five junior-and senior-high teen-agers who had been temporarily suspended from their schools for making that quiet demonstration in December 1965 were Mary Beth Tinker and John Tinker, children of a Methodist minister who works for the pacifist American Friends Service Committee. Writing for the majority, Justice Abe Fortas declared that the issue was not a frivolous one, such as a boy's hair style or the length of a girl's skirt...
...Louisville Courier-Journal and Times went ahead and used the words, but later regretted it. "We regarded it as an official report, and it is our policy not to tinker with the text of an official report," says Executive Editor Norman Isaacs. As complaints poured in from church groups and offended readers, Isaacs candidly apologized. "It was an error in news judgment," he adds. "It isn't likely to happen again...
...just trying to tinker with the present system," Constable said, "but we're trying to examine the entire spectrum of possibilities for change." He said that the committee has not yet come to any firm decisions on specific changes...
...basically one of tight bursts of packaged melody--made up of a stinging organ sound, precise drumming and his own jabbing giutar, between intervals of his own singing which is acute and stormy. He also seems to have a nice sense of balance and discretion, rarely overstepping into excess. "Tinker Taylor," for example, has a pleasant original riff and this is milked in the song just about as far as it will go and no more--not pounded to death as some American groups are prone to do with their own minor creations. Within the limits in which prediction...