Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEAN MARTIN SUMMER SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The name of the star is the same, but the program is just a summer replacement, with Comics Dan Rowan and Dick Martin filling in for the absent Dino. Then, to hold down the show's exploding population, the producers have halved the Smothers Brothers, presenting only Tom as guest star...
...student wearing a vague expression: "There is a certain absent look in you when you play. You can imagine that it is not important how you look, but I can assure you that it is. I remember once in Kansas City we were rehearsing and an insurance agent interrupted us. He wanted to insure our fingers, but one of the musicians said: 'Why do you talk only about the finger? Why aren't you concerned about the nose? Do you think any of us can give a recital without a nose?' In other words, the total appearance...
Already the Videocorder has become a show-business prop. Performers can tape their rivals' shows; mimics are building up libraries of fresh material. Some colleges are testing it; Fairleigh Dickinson tapes chemistry lectures, suggests that students who were absent make up by watching tapes. A new rental market is opening up for TV-taped plays, operas and movies. And for homemade shows, there's nothing like it to keep little Polly's ninth birthday a joy forever. In fact, for the self-watcher the joys are limitless; when he has run through his whole library of tapes...
Twelve members of the English Department will be absent for all or part of next year. The loss to the Department appears temporary since nine of these men will be coming back, but the mass exodus has more permanent effects for English majors who will be Seniors next year...
Dwight Eisenhower's distaste for political maneuver brought Richard Nixon to the front as the top party campaigner. Eisenhower included Nixon in Cabinet meetings, and when the President was absent, Nixon presided over both Cabinet and National Security Council. John Kennedy brought Lyndon Johnson closer to security affairs, sent him on a series of good-will missions abroad. But there was no closeness between the two men. "What ever became of Lyndon?" was by summer 1963 a real, rather than a funny, question. Nonetheless, by Humphrey's time the vice-presidency, as Historian James MacGregor Burns has written...