Word: chord
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result showed up last week as American Motors introduced the Hornet, its new small car, with an advertisement that urged: "Open a door and listen for the reassuring thunk you get when you close it." In auto showrooms, the sound of a car door slamming touches some responsive chord in the frazzled psyche of the American buyer-and all the automakers know it. "There is very little to go on when you buy a car these days," says Carl Hedeen, General Motors' chief of body engineering. "If the glove box opens, the seats are soft and the doors thunk...
...acoustic guitars. Blind Faith's version of the old Buddy Holly tune, Well All Right, skips along with a blithe country feeling, and Clapton's Presence of the Lord has an ingenuous melody that rides over churchy harmonies and ends on a soothing, strange (for rock) seventh chord...
This umbilical chord to the establishment adds a fine touch of irony to their issue on the confrontation. Another is why they did this issue in the first place. After all, the Lampoon had published just a single issue during the first nine tenths of this academic year--the only exception being the "movie worsts" issue (which is not a regular issue, as such, and whose publicity was so pre-ordained that radio station WRKO carried the winners of this year's awards in its headline news...
...center of most of the other dance numbers is Shannon Thompson, a girl who can't help but ignite you spinal chord. Miss Thompson is, quite simply, the best musical comedienne Cambridge could ever hope to have. From the first time I saw her (as a stripper in Gypsy, looking something like an eight-foot tall slutty butterfly), I knew this girl could do no wrong. As Lola, the sexiest witch of all time, she grabs more laughs than anyone (including no doubt the authors), ever knew existed in the role. Even here dancing has a certain humorous, self-mocking...
Similarly it is clear that the question of restructuring the University did strike a responsive chord in the University community. As Herb Gintis and Jon Supak point out in their leaflet, it is clear that restructuring can be approached in a constructive and radical fashion as much as it can be used as a smoke screen to erode radical stands. In view of the student interest that the issue kindled, SDS ought to have taken care to put forward its own position on the matter and attempted to work on the problem. The worst possible tactic, the one that...