Word: classicize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is an air of certainty about the decimal point or the fractionalized percentage-even in areas where the measurement is statistically absurd or the data basically unknowable. A classic example is a survey made some years ago, which solemnly reported that 331% of all the coeds at Johns Hopkins University had married faculty members...
Rain washed out three days of play at last week's $250,000 Westchester Golf Classic in Harrison, N.Y. - second-richest tournament in pro-golf history.* And that was fine with Jack, because it gave him a chance to catch up on his sleep - which had not been too peaceful lately. For weeks Nicklaus had been "duck hooking" his tee shots, curving them wildly, and he had yet to figure out why. In Westchester, Jack got his answer in a dream. There he was, standing on the tee. "As I turned my shoulder, taking the driver back, I also...
Though the biggest Losers will be those who pay to see the film, old movie buffs may want to get a glimpse of Jane Russell, who appears to have been thickened by the picture, and to hear one of the classic cliches in cinema history articulated by a cowardly cop: "Where did we go wrong?" From the beginning, baby...
SPECIAL ON CBS, The Emperor's New Clothes (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Jim Filer's musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic performed by New York's Prince Street Players, Ltd. Will B. Able, Marcie Stringer and Fred Grades star...
...bank, the bitter, bloody Battle of Golan Heights seemed almost anticlimactic. It got scant attention in news reports already concentrating on Israel's overall victory. Now, as military censors release the first detailed accounts of the fight for those rugged hilltops, the battle can be recognized as a classic of its kind-a case history of the triumph of tactics and courage over superior force entrenched on all-but-unassailable terrain...