Word: armed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles Darnay groaned. You could tell he was dying inside like a man who was seeing everything he had ever stood for turning to ashes. 'Can't you give your father a little peace in his final hours?' asked Mrs. Darnay. 'Put your arm around him and tell him you'll carry on the burden of guilt when he puts it down...
Hanoi long ago instructed its troops in South Viet Nam that the day might come for fighting and negotiating at the same time, with the Communist military arm reinforcing the diplomatic hand at the bargaining table. Whether or not the Communists were really ready to talk last week (see THE NATION), their soldiers were busy fighting up and down the length of South Viet Nam. Coming in the wake of the New Year's truce, the ferocity of the action was hardly unexpected; both sides always use the few day's respite of truce to position themselves...
...they would stick with it all season. So why bother about quality? Now, says NBC's Mort Werner, "viewers are less committed. They make their selections on a program-by-program basis, and if a special seems more interesting than a series, well, the dial is just an arm's length away...
...plus side of this season, TV finally showed signs of growing up in matters of censorship and salesmanship. The networks now schedule movies that deal with touchy themes-prostitution in Never on Sunday, drug addiction in Man with a Golden Arm. Both films were considered too hot to handle two years ago. Following the lead of Bell Telephone, Xerox and Hallmark, an increasing number of sponsors bunch or juggle the sequence of their commercials to suit the format of a show. And in upcoming months, the programmers are preparing the TV, debuts of such film stars as Doris Day, William...
...sobering digression of the film should especially interest American audiences. Greene interviewed a U.S. fighter-bomber pilot, a major, who had been shot down 11 days previously. The major, with his right leg and left arm severely fractured, lay in a hospital bed, and talked about the war. Nervous, with his face showing the strain, he said he hoped the war could be "terminated"--he spoke almost throughout in military jargon. He said he agreed with the "Kennedy, Fulbright, Mansfield position," that we "need to take another look in regards to our Vietnamese policy." What about draft-card burners...