Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OUR GENERATION, according to Gerzon, has broken cleanly with the past and overthrown convention. "The postwar generation is the first to have reached manhood in a mass society." One can only guess at the meaning of the last term. "Mass society" has been a commonplace about America since Tocqueville, but...
The first official court business was the showing of three films made in Chicago during the convention. The defense wanted to have these entered as evidence, and it was necessary to submit them to the judge before allowing the jury to see them.
Defense exhibits 351 and 352 were films of interviews with various movement leaders who stated that they were not planning a revolution and had tried to gain protest permits but were turned down. The third film was actually made a short time after the convention; it showed interviews with Rubin...
Much debate followed on the admissibility of the three films. The prosecution objected to the first two because they could have been manufactured before the convention for the sole purpose of covering up the defendants' true intentions. The defense argued that the defendants were charged with using national radio and...
Like all decent/indecent Restoration comedies, the play cuts to the chase, the chaste and the unchaste. The masquerading Master Aimwell (Ronald Pickup) pursues Dorinda (Sheila Reid) with lofty ardor. They are a fluttery pair, brimming with sentiment and much given to pledges of undying affection and confessional honesty. The masquerading...