Word: classics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them within scoring range. Now there were only 50 seconds left in the game. The Oakland stadium erupted like Mauna Loa. Twenty-one million at-home fans climbed into their TV sets. And then-NBC abruptly cut away to Heidi, a two-hour dramatization of the children's classic. It was a clear case of unsportsmanlike conduct, especially since the Raiders, in those last few TV-less seconds, went on to score two spectacular back-to-back touchdowns...
Myrdal, a diplomat-scholar famed for his classic study of American race relations, An American Dilemna, outlined the political conclusions and solutions he had drawn from his three volume An Asian Drama in a speech sponsored by the Harvard Law School Forum in Sanders Theatre...
ARLO GUTHRIE: ARLO (Reprise). In his first album, Alice's Restaurant, Woody Guthrie's boy created a piece of instant Americana: a talking blues that wrapped an antiwar protest inside a hilarious tall tale. A classic is a hard thing to live down, especially for a performer of 21. This amiable but unmemorable release-recorded live at Manhattan's Bitter End cafe -indicates that it may be some time before Guthrie matches Restaurant again. Meantime, his satire may not bite but it nips playfully, and his comic drawl is impeccably timed. The Pause of Mr. Claus begins...
...Corridors of Power, The Two Cultures), who is celebrated for his observations on the disparity between the worlds of science and the humanities. Lord Snow issued his warning last week as he delivered the John Findlay Green lecture at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo. (where Winston Churchill made his classic "iron curtain" speech in 1946). In effect, Snow said that Malthus' gloomy prognostication might be borne out within a generation...
...late-show watchers remember Spencer Tracy's bravura portrayal of Clarence Darrow and Fredric March's performance as William Jennings Bryan in the movie Inherit the Wind, a reenactment of the 1925 Scopes "monkey trial." That classic courtroom confrontation seemed to come from another era, a benighted past when a 24-year-old substitute biology teacher named John T. Scopes was actually indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee schoolroom. But that era was not so distant after...