Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trends -will no doubt have little trouble in assigning Forster's influence and renown to sensible causes and perspectives. Forster grew up, after all, in comfortable upper-middle-class circumstances (Tonbridge school; King's College. Cambridge; an inherited income of ?8,000 a year). His confrontations of plot and apparent symbolism at first seem to fit easily enough into the new century's dramatic reaction against the massive structures and stifling legacies of Victorian England: passion and beauty v. respectability and ugliness (Where Angels Fear to Tread), personal freedom v. conventional success (The Longest Journey), cultivation...
...flight surgeon dutifully recites the Air Force manual's imaginary Catch No. 22: Naturally, anyone who wants to get out of combat isn't really crazy. So supernaturally, anyone who says he is too crazy to keep flying is too sane to stop. On such circular reasoning rests the plot, the dialogue, and indeed the film's essence...
Here's the plot: A preppy jock from Winthrop House meets, falls in love with, and marries over his father's objections a beautiful but poor Cliffie from Cranston. Rhode Island on a music scholarship, but she dies of leukemia...
...June 6, Stokeley Carmichael announced from exile in Africa that he was resigning as Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party because of the group's policy of making alliances, with white radical groups. In New York, the proceedings against 21 Panthers allegedly involved in a bomb plot continued. On July 7, George F. McGrath, New York City Commissioner of the New York City Department of justice justified holding the New York defendants in isolation cells with special security measures by saying that the Panthers were "recognized militants, as part of a formal party which urges people to be antiestablishment...
...wilder urban system is Dorothy Proctor's plot to install a love-in on every park bench. Her life-sized fiberglass grandmas, boy-with-dogs, and hand-holding couples may be seated throughout Boston. Each sculpture would leave room for six live people on a bench. So, according to the artist, "You could put your head on a girl's lap or lean against Grandma, and a child could pat the dog without damage to either." A less cozy proposal specifices concrete benches-figures and bench would be cast as one piece...