Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifty-five organizers were dispatched across the nation. In New York City, People for McCarthy began a "Telephone Revolution" with newspaper ads inviting supporters to call up and leave their names for an unofficial referendum designed to document the depth of disenchantment with the party's Establishment. Meantime, the Senator's aides are negotiating with TV networks for at least three half-hour broadcast slots prior to the convention, when the candidate will discuss the democratic process, the war, foreign policy and the urban crisis...
...some consolation to other blue-water yachtsman to learn that Sumner A. ("My friends call me Huey") Long, 46, suffers from seasickness. It is certainly their only consolation, because Long, a Manhattan ship broker, is the world's most successful ocean-racing skipper. Between 1960 and 1967, Long and his 57-ft. yawl Ondine logged 150,000 miles, entering 66 races that ranged in distance from 19 miles to 3,190 miles -and winning 44 of those races either outright or on corrected time. That Ondine, rechristened Severn Star, currently serves as a training boat for cadets...
...EXISTENTIAL SLAPSTICK. This genre seems to mix Mack Sennett and Samuel Beckett. A woman, responding to the call "Where's the Open Pit?", dashes across the lawn with a bottle of Open Pit barbecue sauce and disappears into an open pit. A baker, having carelessly forgotten his Vicks Cough Silencers, tosses pizza dough into the air, coughs and catches it splat in the face. Splat again, as the Pond's girl gets schlopped in the eye with cold cream. And whack! umph! and aaagh! as a mousy little guy, sploshed with Hai Karate after-shave lotion, brutally chops down...
...probings and brain-candling, TV ads fail with reassuring regularity reassuring because it means that the masses are still beyond manipulation. Indeed, owing to what the researchers call "the fluid, ever-changing force of subcultures," the viewers are still downright unpredictable...
...simplicity. Therein lies his undoing. When a local whore is pursued by the police, he hides her and is defrocked by the church for his act of charity. He gives away his raiment and walks barefoot, only to be mocked by villagers. Wherever he goes, "Nazarin"-as the villagers call him- becomes synonymous with trouble. Finally, he shuffles off to oblivion in the custody of police...