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Word: crickets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record player when he was two years old, later crouched wide-eyed in the corner during his father's lessons and chamber-music rehearsals. With his retentive memory and faultless ear, he was soon whistling Paganini caprices in the original key while riding his bike or playing cricket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Gypsy Boy | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...Magoo portraying Scrooge, which was repeated last week for the sixth consecutive sea son. Other animated perennials are CBS's "A Charlie Brown Christmas," NBC's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," CBS's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," and a new NBC entry, "The Cricket on the Hearth." Of course, as happened last week, it is always possible to have The Flying Nun conjure up a white Christmas in the tropics or send Dragnet's Sgt. Friday in pursuit of the scoundrel who stole the Christ child from a Nativity scene. But how much easier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Nights Before Christmas | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...Richard Lester mixes explosively funny moments with comedy of a blacker sort in a surrealistic vision of war, as a platoon of World War II tommies (including Michael Crawford, Jack MacGowran, John Lennon) attempts to build an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 22, 1967 | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...Richard Lester mixes explosively funny moments with comedy of a blacker sort in a surrealistic vision of war, as a platoon of World War II tommies (including Michael Crawford, Jack MacGowran, John Lennon) attempts to build an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 15, 1967 | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...CRICKET WINTER, by Felice Holman, illustrated by Ralph Pinto (Norton; $3.95). A lovely fantasy, realistically wrought, of a lonely boy and a cricket who talk to each other via Morse code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 8, 1967 | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

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