Word: chan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less well-off pay a few shillings a year, while Millionaire Leonard Mat-chan, the wealthiest Sarkee, forks over only about ?125 annually. In return, residents are guaranteed serenity: Sark has no cars, no newspapers, no police save for two honorary constables, and no hospital. In recent years, however, Dame Sibyl's subjects have been asserting an unwonted degree of independence...
...50th-reunion class ('19) produced what is expected to be a record sum for the class. Fund Chairman Richard Lombard also reported a "financial vote of confidence" by some Dartmouth men who had refused to contribute for as long as five years. Denver University's Chan cellor Maurice Mitchell, who expelled 39 sit-in demonstrators last year, recently inspired a torrent of admiring letters-and donations-when he vowed to ignore further student threats. Denver's average alumni gift increased from $30 to $46.77, while overall donations rose...
...Mayor Chan Coulter, a retired Army colonel, credits his one-woman force with providing a "very special kind of protection in our town." But soon University Heights, which hired Mrs. Winders in 1935 when she asked for the job, will have to start looking for a new marshal. Winders and Portia are contemplating retirement. "The council," says the grandmother, "thinks I'm getting loo old to chase cars." The council may have a point. At 70, Esther Winders claims to be the oldest working policewoman in the nation...
...vocal writing and his intuitive knack for fantasy. The first work, Dreams of Liu-tung, depicts the adventures of a frivolous student who is converted to Taoism when a magician conjures up four dreams that chillingly depict his fate. Butterfly Widow is a comedy about a high-court functionary, Chan-tse, who dreams each night that he is a beautiful giant butterfly. A philosopher tells Chan-tse that he was actually a butterfly in his former life and was probably a lot happier without the nagging of his current wife. Chan-tse pretends to be dead in a cemetery. When...
...Jersey burlesque during Prohibition. Can they really mean it-using this sort of stuff on TV in 1968? Laugh-In's producers know bad jokes when they use them. There is an element of camp and reverse sophistication in this, reminiscent of making a cult of Charlie Chan movies and Captain Marvel comic books. Besides, the outrageous jokes are thrown into the machinery of the show to create contrast and surprise, and to give viewers a chance to catch up with some fast, good jokes that may have come earlier-or so the show's apologists rationalize...