Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attraction of the Borscht Belt is still the opportunity it provides for generating togetherness. At Grossinger's, Hostess Karla Grossinger serves as matchmaker-psychologist, introduces couples with practiced skill. The weekly hotel newspaper (delivered to more than 100.-ooo alumni) proudly reports all marriages that can be traced back to a romance at the G. At the Concord, just inside the mammoth dining room, a wooden pegboard records who is sitting where-pink pegs for women, blue for men. Lighter and darker shades indicate relative ages. Thus the maitre d'hotel is also able to serve...
...with Quintero's sound effects-the frantic music of bagpipes, thunder, the clangor of horses' hoofs, bells, and. in the sudden striking silences, the rasp of crickets. Armies fought across the front of the vast Elizabethan stage with such intensity that those in front-row seats pulled back in alarm. Offstage entrances brought the action into the far reaches of the theater; Macbeth strode out to meet the three weird, raffia-haired witches from the very back edge of the theater; Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane down every aisle...
...Back in the U.S., Houdini bolstered his mounting publicity by breaking out of still more jails. Onstage, he walked through brick walls, even though the walls were set on a carpet and volunteers stood on the carpet's edges to prove that it stayed in place and did not hide a trap door. (There actually was a trap door. When it was opened, the carpet sagged, despite the volunteers, and Houdini inched beneath the wall. This part of the act was hidden from both volunteers and audience by a screen.) He was soldered into a coffin made of galvanized...
...tour indeed had its trials. Despite a handsome time advantage in filing-seven hours in Moscow, eleven in Novosibirsk-many dispatches missed their U.S. deadlines because of interminable, often unexplained Red-tape delays. Correspondents found that the only sure way to get copy back home was by telephone: the Associated Press held one circuit seven hours-at $3 a minute, or $1,260 worth-to assure prompt coverage of Nixon's long talk with Khrushchev at the Premier's dacha outside Moscow...
...When my people were brought over here from Asia and Africa, they were given various names, such as Jones and Smith. I haven't adopted a name. It's a part of my ancestral background and heritage: I have re-established my original name. I have gone back to my own vine and fig tree...