Word: axes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk, not an indifferentist. Pharisaism, stupidity, and despotism reign not in merchants' houses and prisons alone. I see them in science, in literature, in the younger generation. . . . There is no civilization, no happiness, if the woods fall under the axe, if the climate is harsh and flat, if the people are harsh and flat-the future is terrible...
...Abrams, as Pooh-Bah, the Lord High Everything Else, was marvelous as the proud but corrupt political hack. But the undisputed star of the show was Josh Rubins, as Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. Following the opulent train of reverent courtiers, he wore a ludicrous robe decorated with axe-heads and carried a headsman's axe several inches taller than he is. It was enough to bring down the house. His version of "As someday it may happen that a victim must be found" included some updated lines ( that singular anomaly, the strict constructionist ), and visual effects-pulling...
Last week, the collection of reading fare included the Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas, the Ethics of Sex, the Village Voice, A Man from Kansas, bound volumes of Time (1945), Life (1969) and the Saturday Evening Post (1954), Harpers, Police Chief, and the Icon and the Axe, an interpretive history of Russian Culture...
Cavett has already shown that he has trouble appealing to the mass-consumption audience. Twice before-once with a daytime show and again last summer with a variety hour-Cavett put on the same kind of solid performance, only to meet the network axe when he couldn't bring in the soap commercials. Running against Carson's show, the fiscal prospects look bad again. Cavett's fans can only hope that ABC looks past the ledger books when it decides whether to keep the show...