Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last nice teen-age girl in town, Allison MacKenzie (Mia Farrow), was at 18 facing Life: Schuster, she learned, was interested in her for more than her baby-sitting services. "Basically Moral." But Monash sees "nothing offensive" in such plotting. "Why don't our critics," he asks, "count up what happens in the three hours King Lear is on the stage?" Not that ABC is really counting (except its audiences). Its prime defense, enunciated repeatedly by Programming Director Adrian Samish, is that "the show is basically very clean and moral, because wrongdoers are punished." For instance, when the richest...
...this," he said, "why don't you have stories like this?" It was an article called "28 People Who Count," People who were "Heroes of the California rebels (and as Cal goes, so go the rest)." The list included Ralph Ginzburg, the publisher of Fact magazine; Bishop James Pike ("Because he's a kid's kind of troublemaker, always in hot water, always on the liberal side: birth control, capital punishment. The Bomb, and all that"); Caryl Chessman; Norman Mailer; and, good God, B.F. Skinner ("Because he points to the cool world...
...Tuesday, he believes that a Massachusetts Supreme Court judge would order the BRA to stop demolishing buildings and halt most of the evictions. But it would take until Wednesday at the earliest to get a restraining order. At the rate the BRA is tearing down buildings (this reporter's count is eight so far), most of the uninhabited structures could be gone by that time. About the only thing that would keep the BRA from knocking down everything in its way would be very strong pressure from Washington...
...Knockouts. The Viet Cong had reason enough to work out in nip-ups rather than knockouts. According to Saigon, they sustained their heaviest losses of the war last month: 3,050 dead (by actual body count), an estimated 6,000 wounded, 4,130 defectors -about the equivalent of a full combat division. Clearly, the losses were hurting. Squawking to North Viet Nam, the Viet Cong requested enough volunteers to "step up the resistance of the war ten times." The request, of course, was a mere formality, since Hanoi is estimated to have 10,000 regulars in the South already...
...Opera Auditions, made his Met debut in Cosi Fan Tutte as a last-minute substitute for an ailing tenor, and was promptly acclaimed the find of the season. In the years since, he has sung leading roles in Madame Butterfly, Simon Boccanegra and La Traviata, next season will portray Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. "Fifteen years ago," says Shirley, "I probably wouldn't have been accepted by the Met. Ten years ago, I couldn't sing my favorite roles. Times are changing...