Word: davids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUST as David Ben-Gurion has been compared to a modern Moses who led his people to the Promised Land, so Levi Eshkol made a credible Joshua as Ben-Gurion's successor in the premiership of Israel. Chosen in 1963 for what many believed to be a transitional tenure, Eshkol presided over the defeat of Israel's enemies and its coming of age as an industrial state. When he died last week at 73, he left behind a government more unified than at any time in Israel's 21-year history, and one that rules over...
...mighty. The broadcaster who established the form was the late Richard Dimbleby, the eloquent voice of Britain whose specialty was such sonorous events as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. Last week Dimbleby the Second - Richard's 30-year-old son David - revised the ritual for the BBC. To mark Richard Nixon's visit to Britain, he gave the President of the U.S. as tart and unflattering a coverage as any Nixon got in Europe...
...David learned his undeferential ways first as editor of Isis, the student magazine at Oxford, then as an interviewer for the BBC in the provinces. Sometimes he would carry two microphones to cover for radio and telly simultaneously-and to increase his fee to $22 per assignment. He later worked on network-wide documentaries and panel shows in London and spent a year as a CBS correspondent. His credits include a film report from Albania and an uneven essay on the "vulgarity" of Texas. In a preview of the sort of sharp commentary he delivered last week, he described Texas...
Dimbleby was hardly abashed by the official apology. What BBC management thought was a bad show was cheered last week as bang-on by the London TV critics. Wrote the Daily Mail: "It's very possible that David Dimbleby judged the mood of the nation toward the Nixon visit as accurately as his father judged its mood toward the visits of Eisenhower and Kennedy. Don't let them throw you, David. It's better to be ahead of your time than behind...
Salesman is a good deal more ambitious and successful. Producers Al and David Maysles spent almost two months following a group of Bible salesmen on their rounds (which they refer to as "your Father's business"), from Boston to Opalocka, Fla. The result is a nightmare version of, in Al Maysles' phrase, "a part of the American dream." Salesman's central figure is a middle-aged Massachusetts Irishman named Paul Brennan, whom his cronies nickname "The Badger." He holds one of the MidAmerican Bible Co.'s better than average sales records, but as the film progresses...