Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general election, voters list all city council and school committee candidates in numerical order, starting with one for their first choice. Voting is probably the easiest part of the proportional system, as the polls are open for only one day and it usually takes at least two to hand count the ballots...
ONCE UPON a time there was a genre known as musical comedy--quick-paced, sly and witty, warm, didactic but shallow. The songs were pleasant and melodious, you could count on a few up-tunes and some spangled bimbos, never in any more dissonant a musical mode than mixolydian. The script--"book" it was called by those in the know--grappled with Important Issues, like racial prejudice (Finnian's Rainbow) other cultures (The King and I), utopia found and lost (Camelot) and the Nazi rise to power (Cabaret). It was good, workmanlike entertainment, done with zeal and finesse, an enjoyable...
Having lost our heroes, we now appear to be losing our villains. Horror mutates into giggly farce. Bloodsucking monsters become, at the worst, no more than kinky. The saga of Count Dracula, a vampire, has at no time lost its fascination. However, it seems to be enjoying an unusual vogue at the moment, with two productions in New York this month, a third soon to come, and movie and television shows in the offing. Whether or not a faddist gothic revival is under way, there is a pervasive skepticism about unrationed faith in rationality and a blind unqualified faith...
...Word count so far: 385.) Short break for inner movie about receiving Nobel Prize for literature. Psychiatrists call this the "grandiose fantasy." This imaginary acclaim is a neurotic compromise between the real self-scared, limited-and the ideal self-a literary conqueror. Says Manhattan Analyst Donald Kaplan: "The fantasy of playing Carnegie Hall may be so gratifying that you can't manage to practice your scales...
...Brigade," the group that carried the Carter campaign door to door in its early days. Old Friend Bert Lance was there, and the former Budget Director spent the night in the Lincoln bedroom. When one member of the Brigade told Carter that "on the next go round, you can count on every one of us again," a pleased President responded: "I'm not making any announcements about the future-but don't throw away those suitcases...