Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bell & Howell Close-Up! (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Cast the First Stone, first of a series of 15 documentaries, examines racial prejudice in four Northern cities...
...there, center stage, backed by a tableau of nudes, hollering a patriotic song and keeping time with his midsection. Then he does a little tap dance, insults the bandmaster, sticks his cane in the trombone and leers as he wiggles it around, tells a joke ("The old church bell won't ring tonight as the vicar's got the clapper") that nobody laughs at, so he tries another song: "Thank God we're normal (bump), normal (bump), normal (bump)!" Somebody in the audience groans: "Where did they...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Van Cliburn, Benny Goodman, Sally Ann Howes, Howard Keel, Ballerina Melissa Hayden. Color...
...performance would have looked good in any production, and seemed splendid in this one: Clayton Corzatte's Puck. Corzatte was nimble of foot and voice, moving always with grace and speaking with great clarity and in bell-like tones that become extraordinary during incantations. Perhaps the only fault in his performance was an occasional tendency to speak too rapidly, and even this can be excused as an attempt to get the wretched evening over with...
Where but at Harvard could a group call itself Tocsin? When spoken, the word carries a medicinal odor, rather than the intended echoes of a warning bell. Yet the group exists and, surprising for the "peace movement," its notes ring clear. Forged during the summer, it is preparing to sound the alarm about impending nuclear ruin...