Word: chautauquas
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...Chautauqua Troupers. The transcripts posed a different problem for TV and radio. The text seemed to offer little chance for visual excitement, while its sheer bulk prohibited complete on-the-air coverage (some noncommercial radio stations across the country have been staging marathon readings, however). By Tuesday evening, just hours after the release, all three networks had produced sharp analyses of key presidential conversations, particularly the March 21 meeting between Nixon and Dean...
...think you have to handle [E. Howard] Hunt's financial situation damn soon?" Particularly helpful were readings from the transcripts by CBS newsmen taking the parts of the President (Barry Ser-afin), Dean (Bob Schieffer) and Haldeman (Nelson Benton). The trio stood behind 19th century lecterns like Chautauqua troupers and read tonelessly to avoid possibly inaccurate inflections. Nevertheless, they lent some human clarity to the welter of words...
...tried to shape the great mass of evidence to their own ends. To defend Stans, Walter Bonner, 48, wore a flamboyant brown and yellow plaid suit, and he brought along a courtroom style to match. Laughing, shouting, waving his arms, steaming with barely controlled indignation, Bonner put on a Chautauqua performance for four hours. He claimed that his client had been unfairly afflicted by the prosecution with the blight of "Vescoitis"-the implication that Stans had been controlled in thought and deed by Financier Robert Vesco. According to the indictment, Stans and Mitchell had tried to help Vesco with...
Billy was not the only one fascinated by the combination circus and Chautauqua lecture that last week was playing Zanesville, Ohio, a small (pop. 39,000) city on the edge of Appalachia. Many of his friends and classmates spent hours assembling and disassembling Rufus, a life-size plastic model of a human body with removable heart, lungs, kidneys and brain. Adults, meanwhile, strolled through displays devoted to family planning, sanitation and cancer detection, lined up at booths for tests to detect diabetes and lung disease and learned how to recognize incipient heart trouble...
...been slept in. When he spoke, there issued forth a sesquipedalian vocabulary, diapasonal sounds like a Hammond organ in dense fog. His performances had a consciously archaic quality about them. He satirized fustian while indulging in it. His senatorial solemnity was a species of burlesque. He belonged in a Chautauqua rather than a McLuhan age, although he became a master of television performing. His manner, leavened by an exquisite sense of self-parody, conjured up Americana, suggestions of snake-oil peddlers, backwoods Shakespeareans, the gentle rapscallionry of Penrod Schofield's or Pudd'nhead Wilson's world. Before...