Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asset: her beauty - dark-haired, with widely spaced dark-brown eyes and a serene, oval face . . . She seldom wears hats, but when she does she likes them large-brimmed and fem inine, though never fussy. If she has a fashion-signature, it is simplicity." . . . Reminding televiewers that the last echo of rigged TV quiz shows has not yet died away, a Manhattan grand jury called in onetime Quizling Elfrida von Nardroff, 34, winner of $220,500 on NBC's extinct, discredited Twenty One program, to tell what, if anything, she knew about sure-fire answers. As she left...
...last quarter, archery bored her, and in another she played poor tennis: "Tennis! Oh, forty-love! Well, for your information, they are not batting tennis balls at Cape Canaveral." To Charlene, the school's insistence that physical and mental education count equally seemed an echo of the old notion ("back in the days of outdoor privies") that Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. "Live in our world of 1960," she urged as she cited such "notoriously poor athletes" as Edison and Einstein. "This might come as a great shock...
...Clay was not only spinning once again, but to Detroit's shocked surprise, he was doing it for WQTE, a more-filtered-than-thou sort of radio station that had long bragged of its pure air and its superiority to rock-'n'-roll, vulgar whistles and echo chambers...
...human existence is the commentary upon them. Every age and every man, in his seven ages, finds a reflection in Shakespeare's universal mirror. The passion and the poetry echo in the corridors of the mind, and truer than "the infancy of truth" will go on echoing to the last of time...
Coke Time (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The hippest, hottest (not necessarily the pleasantest) young voices now coming out of echo chambers are collected by Host Pat Boone-Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, Frankie Avalon, Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes...