Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Oscar Winners Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft star in The Miracle Worker, based on the early life of Helen Keller...
...inkwell, his blood as ink, and a bayonet as a pen." Dessalines died by an assassin's bullet within three years. His successor, Henri Christophe, cared little for charters?black or white. He proclaimed himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy (including such titles as the Duke of Marmelade and Count of Limonade), and ruled as a merciless despot until 1820, when his officers revolted, and he committed suicide by firing a silver bullet into his brain...
...week to exchange idle but engaging chitchat. On the nation's TV sets, he could be seen siting before a picture tube of his own smoking incessantly while he commented on the guided tour that had been arranged in elaborate detail. Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Rocky Graziano, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Krishna Menon opened their homes to Murrow. And it was on this program that the dour newscaster was first observed to laugh over...
Thompson also supported the Pulitzer advisory board for rejecting the music jury's recommendation that a special citation be given to Duke Ellington. Although Ellington is an accomplished musician, Thompson said, "the prize was not created for music in that sphere...
Therefore I wasn't sure that the writers hadn't simply fabricated Duke, as a naive, generalised adolescent who would elicit sympathy for their cause and their movie. That suspicion was based on an ignorance of Harlem teenagers, but an ignorance that I share with almost everyone to whom the movie is addressed...