Word: far-off
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...Ruth White-middle-aged, pensive, measured and monotonous-fills the box and the theater. The voice is almost sleep inducing, like water lapping persistently at a sea wall. Actress White's monologue consists of some pretentious restatements of the obvious: Art is order; craftsmanship is waning; children in far-off places are starving to death...
...nominate its presidential candidate. Lyndon Johnson was at the zenith of his popularity. The G.O.P. was preparing to counter him with Barry Goldwater, an all-but-certain loser. The economy was booming, taxes were down, the cities were more or less tranquil, and Viet Nam was a relatively far-off rumble...
What is most important is that the liberal activists never really know what SDS is doing or how they decide on policies. They find out what they know through the media--from the Crimson on Harvard events, and from the national press about far-off places like Wisconsin and B.U. The press, of course, hands its readers what it wants, and most of that is sensational. It was sensational news about police brutality in Oakland and Washington that turned the liberal activists against Dow in the fall, and it is the overplayed copy about SDS' demanding no tuition that disenchants...
...from all but radio contact with other human beings, confined to a 40-ft.-long chamber and breathing the same limited supply of oxygen over and over, four California college students might as well be in far-off space. And that is the idea. Ever since they were sealed up in a white steel cylinder in an outbuilding behind the McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s Santa Monica plant on Feb. 19, the students have been testing a life-support system designed for future orbital missions t hat could last for 60 days or longer...
...past will quite prepare the reader for Myra Breckinridge. Vidal and his publisher, insisting that the sexual problems of the title character represent a suspense element vital to the novel's enjoyment, coquettishly plead that the book not be reviewed at all. However, anyone who has been to far-off, murky Venice-or just down to the local fag bar-will recognize Myra's true gender long before Vidal coyly pronounces the paradigm. And in all conscience it can be reported that the key to Myra's sexual-identity crisis is about as crucial as the sound...