Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sahl mockingly: "I'm the intellectual voice of the era-which is a good measure of the era." It may well be. Bright and nervous, frenetic, full of quick smiles and dark moods, shouting "Onward, onward" between laughs, performing in a cashmere sweater, always tieless, he manages to suggest barbecue pits on the brink of doom...
...this juncture even fewer courageous souls, still including me, respectfully suggest a double feature at the U.T., evoking either scalding hauteur or tears from our dates. "How," they hiss, "can you ignore the excellent movies, some in English, which are now spellbinding the Boston cognoscenti? Do you expect me to tell the girls in the dorm that I went to the U.T.? And saw a double feature...
...produced some bothersome clichés of its own. The basic stage set of last week's Ring was an eight-ton, segmented concave disk looking somewhat like a huge radar antenna. In the second and fourth Rheingold scenes it was used intact, tilted toward the audience to suggest the rugged slopes of Wotan's mountain home; in other scenes the disk's movable segments represented a cave...
...discussing the outbreaks of violence in the Congo, you say that "14 million people reverted to near savagery" and that "there seemed no logical explanation for the madness that swept the Congo." May I suggest that such reversion to savagery is not peculiar to the African but that throughout history such excesses have generally followed in the wake of heady new freedom won at last by people who have previously been treated like dogs. Freedom permits open expression of hatred that has been seething for years, and that hatred bursts like water from a broken dam. For the moment there...
...ruled the Congo for 80 years without educating a single Congolese doctor or engineer. "Only eight years ago," said Kanza, "I was the first to leave Congolese territory to go through higher education." He might have pointed out that the actual casualties are far fewer than the headlines would suggest. Those killed were mostly soldiers from both sides and numbered twelve whites and 79 Congolese...