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"CONDUCT UNBECOMING a Harvard student"--the official phrase for undesirable action usually refers to excessive violations of law or courtesy, such as severely hurting someone or something. But University officials are quietly including another category in the list of traits they'd rather not see undergraduates display--irreverence and independent...
Yet an urge for self-destruction has not so characterized the period as the wider compulsions of experimentation and free expression, almost a motor reflex to lurch in new directions. In the years immediately following World War I, Gertrude Stein was offering as much challenge as pity when she branded...
While hippiedom onstage may last no longer than its cultists, nudity could prove more durable. On-and off-Broadway, this has been the year of naked truth. It reflects the widening moral latitude of U.S. society, and represents the theater's attempt to recover that adult freedom of expression...
Now to the platform came Singer Mahalia Jackson. First she sang a slow, sorrowful Gospel song titled I've Been Buked and I've Been Scorned. Her voice was marvelous, but her impact was more in her manner. Near tears, she moved her huge audience to tears. But...
In the violent summer of 1967, Detroit became the scene of the bloodiest uprising in half a century and the costliest in terms of property damage in U.S. history. At week's end, there were 41 known dead, 347 injured, 3,800 arrested. Some 5,000 people were homeless...