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...accept art that visually leaps from the wall to assault the optic jugular. Much luminal art is similarly turned on. The USCO group of Garnerville, N.Y., can induce the hallucinatory traumas that occur in some LSD trips by means of blinding strobe lights-the visual equivalent of the electronic scream at the end of the Beatles' record Penny Lane...
...words with party functionaries. To those who complain about Johnson, he says: "Don't poison the well you're going to be drinking from next year." To liberals who have parted ways with the President over Viet Nam, he snaps: "You go off in a corner and scream, and then you complain that only the hawks, the wild men, have the President's ear. What kind of stupidity is that?" Once anathema in the South, Humphrey has lately found himself welcome in such places as North Carolina, where the Governor two years ago was roundly criticized...
...rough. You try to be brave-not brave as the absence of fear, but brave as the courage to keep up and go on. You want to scream and run and hide, but there's nowhere to go. You try to look ahead and see nothing but an unending, unchanging series of days-boring, frustrating, futile. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow-a tale told by an idiot, and you're the idiot. It's 10:30 and I'm tired. I'll just have to write Aunt Jean and Aunt Helen and Aunt Charlotte tomorrow...
...magazine less likely to survive: FORTUNE had walked in on the Great Depression. As a later FORTUNE managing editor, Eric Hodgins, put it: "Almost on the eve of FORTUNE's publication, the whole of the economy of the U.S. clapped a hand over its heart, uttered a piercing scream, and slipped on the largest banana peel since Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations." Yet, surprisingly, the magazine prospered in that dramatically inopportune time. Even at $1 a copy?then an unheard-of price for a magazine?businessmen bought FORTUNE with amazing regularity...
...events of today." But when the Ivory Tower is torn down, and the real world turns out to be the Establishment, then they want to rebuild their fortress--their Ivory Tower. "What the Left really wants is a politicized campus with a Left Penchant," or else they will scream that Theory is their protection against short-sighted, uncritical, policy-oriented education, he says...