Word: daniell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EARLY THUNDER, by Jean Fritz (Coward-McCann; $4.50). A historical novel set in Salem, Mass., in 1775, about Daniel West, a 14-year-old torn between the Tory loyalties of his family and his own awakening devotion to independence...
...well that he was invited back as Sir Basil in two succeeding Tarzan segments-and then it seemed as if every TV producer in Hollywood was after this new property. He appeared in guest shots on Daniel Boone, Red Skelton and Pat Boone's syndicated interview show. In high style, he played the heavy last week...
...Chicago's Mather High School, an honors class in physics is discussing the properties of gas. "They mix together," volunteers one student. "They expand and contract," says another. How about constructing a model, suggests Teacher Daniel Cieslik: "Should it look like a big wad of cotton? That expands and contracts." By prodding and questioning, Cieslik eventually gets the class to focus on the rapid molecular motion that characterizes gases...
Well-padded, playing a role Orson Welles would do without salary, Daniel Seltzer ambles grotesquely around the wooden rectangular stage on which most of Prince Erieis performed. He is Jim Fisk, fat man who rejected the potentially bleak future indicated by his past, becoming instead one of the richest, most unscrupulous Americans in the latter part of the 19th Century. Fisk and partner Jay Gould began with the Erie railroad and, at the height of their spectacular careers, virtually cornered and manipulated the country's private gold reserve...
...combine formal rhythms and precise images with deliberately chosen colloquialisms and small mistakes in grammar, both creating characterization and recreating the formal journalistic idiom of the period. Reporting the market crash, the Heraldreporter ends his news story with, "Threats against Fisk are freely indulged in." Fisk's early employer Daniel Drew prays, "Deliver me from the House of the Harlot, Lord, and from the rest of this here lewd company who don't give two bits for Thy commandments...