Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are only two kinds of music; German music and bad music. Puccini was the best of the wops. His aim was to entertain well-fed folk after dinner-and he did it very competently. Verdi is not to be heard sober, but with a few whiskies tinder my belt I enjoy the last act of II Trovatore. Chopin is a sugar-teat: his music is excellent on rainy afternoons in Winter, with the fire burning, the shaker full and the girl somewhat silly...
...Skyraiders swooped down, strafing and dropping napalm bombs. Some 100 soldiers of the 450-man battalion were killed, many more wounded. Colonel Cao's men captured 22 prisoners, including two nurses and two 15-year-old boys who claimed that their job was to sing and dance to entertain the guerrillas...
...sportscaster to be certain that the announcer sees what the bleacherite sees; sometimes the fan tunes in a second ball game and, by concentrating hard, follows both at once, even if no one else can. With his built-in portable background music, a lonely boy can entice and entertain a girl without need for conversation, and when the romance dies, there is still the transistor for company...
Three cheers to Jackie Kennedy for her continued creativity and imagination in making use of Mount Vernon to entertain...
Directed largely at the year-round residents, Currier's arrows also twanged toward the summer people, whom he calls "the Codfish Aristocracy; they come here and rot with cocktail parties, and when they entertain our stars, they do so to show them off as freaks to their guests." If the Kennebunkport Playhouse makes it to the last item on his 1961 schedule, the summer people and the year-rounders will again be watching Edward Everett Horton in Springtime for Henry. Then, if anyone comes along with the $300,000 asking price for the Playhouse, what will Robert C. Currier...