Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ZORBA THE GREEK. Like the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, this cinemadaptation by Michael Cacoyannis raises a roaring amen to life as it is and a lusty cheer for the man who dares to live it to hellangone. The man is portrayed by Anthony Quinn with noble savagery and goatish gusto...
...troops to the Congo. For one thing, much of black Africa harbors an ancient hostility toward the Arabs that dates back to the precolonial days of the slave traders. No one is more ready to exploit the Arab-Negro conflict than Moise Tshombe, who can always draw a cheer by calling the Arabs "black Africa's worst enemies...
...driver having trouble parking his yellow Cadillac looked familiar, and Denver police moved in for a closer look. Sure enough, there was Sonny Liston, apparently full of yuletide cheer, or so the cops thought. It took ten bulls to wrestle the Big Bear off to city jail, and another two or three deputies to wring out his fingerprints. The prints were hardly necessary. He was nabbed last March for speeding and for packing a concealed pistol, for which he was fined $600 and given a suspended jail sentence. This time the rap is drunken driving, and if convicted...
...veteran he is. "If you wonder why I keep coming back to Korea, I have the same travel agent you have." Then, trying one based on his vague resemblance to the Secretary of Defense, he added: "Everywhere we go we get a big reception. Thousands are waiting to cheer. They think I'm Secretary McNamara with shutdown orders...
...late President and commemorating the impending Christmas season; hair-stylists offer the Kennedy Bob, tov manufacturers the Kennedy Teddy, service stations the Kennedy Jack and Kennedy Ethel, florists the Kennedy Rose, and even social welfare agencies get in the act; they send around a good guy with holiday cheer known as the Kennedy...