Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson interviewed Burchett before the Post published its article, and was thus unable to ask his response. He has, however, denied the charges completely; as far as I know, they have been printed only by papers owned by Murdoch and the John Birch Society. In addition, the Hearst papers have printed charges that Burchett was a KGB agent, as I reported...
Some of the newcomers are ideologues bent on saving white Rhodesia in its last hours of peril. The country now has embryonic chapters of both the John Birch Society and the American Nazi party. There is a bearded ex-Minuteman who claims he is still "on the lam from the feds" in the U.S. Another is an American peddler who spent months trying unsuccessfully to sell bulletproof vests. "Let's face it," says a longtime American res ident, "if they're losers in the States, they're going to be double losers out here. They all figure...
...Bunker, 75, former chief aide to General Douglas MacArthur; of cancer; in Boston. Bunker retired from the Army in 1952, following Truman's dismissal of the five-star general from his Korean command. During the '50s, Bunker became a member of the national council of the John Birch Society...
With the exception of the delicate Chaplin, the other performers are as unacceptable as Skala, belting out their monologues, Broadway-style, in a series of relentless closeups. Only in the evocative dance routines, staged by Choreographer Patricia Birch, does the cast reveal any grace. In fairness, it must be hard to contend with roles like these: most of the male characters are pallid Tennessee Williams retreads, and the women are mere camp stereotypes. The movie's two quasi narrators - a tough dance teacher with a 14-carat heart (Helen Gallagher) and a slick M.C. (Don DeNatale) - are shamelessly derived...
...with fees and dues ranging as high as $1,000 a year. Many have good-and expensive-restaurants and such added recreational lures as pool, pinball and backgammon rooms. In many, the furnishings can best be described as haul kitsch: kaleidoscopic lighting, silver vińyl banquettes, tented nooks, birch trees hung with twinkly Italian lights, jungles of synthetic plants, Plexiglas floors. Not a few, however, are decorated in notably good taste; and some seem to have been designed by the people who went on to make Star Wars...