Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they concede that many are summary police executions. According to one informant, who was a charter member, the first squad was organized in 1958. It was a tightly knit group of 16 policemen who rubbed out an average of a hood a week for six years. When their most famous member was finally killed by a gangster, the squad stayed together long enough to avenge his death (the gangster's body was ravaged by some 100 slugs), then gradually went out of business...
From a critical standpoint, RCA's first Philadelphia records are a distinct disappointment. Recorded in the Philadelphia Academy of Music rather than in the ballroom used by Columbia, their sound is often dry and devoid of the luster for which the orchestra is famous. Charles Ives' Third Symphony and an LP of Grieg and Liszt concertos with Pianist Van Cliburn as soloist are the best of the lot. But the Chopin F-minor Concerto with Artur Rubinstein is heavy and graceless, and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony lacks the bite and immediacy of a nine-year-old version...
...longer a trapdoor on the bar to trip drinks into a sewer at the press of a button, but logs still crackle in the fireplaces and a $750,000 collection of paintings, drawings and bronzes adorns the paneled walls. Habitues include the rich, the powerful and the famous, plus thousands of others who flock there to see or be seen, attracted as much by the mystique as the cuisine. A hamburger lunch may cost $14 with a drink or two, yet industrialists, movie stars and social celebrities covet "territorial rights" to "21" 's hard-to-get tables. Their patronage...
...been." Lest it be thought that this is an attempt to fill the current American prescription for a tragedy with a pain-killing happy ending, it should be made clear that Cheever means by his four "wonderfuls" very much the same bitter things conveyed in the famous five "nothings" of King Lear. There are no dizzy precipices edging the smug suburban surface of Bullet Park. There is, however, the "portable abyss" of the commuter's 7:46 a.m. to Grand Central...
...front of them now was George Wald, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist -- for the moment turned political activist. As he mentioned the necessity of world peace and the now famous military-industrial-labor union complex, young defensive alumni lashed back. "You seem to have left words like 'freedom' and 'liberty' out of your presentation," a 1949 graduate pointed out. And another slight 'fifties alum snapped that "As a management consultant for a six years, I've been at the intermediary level in government defense contractors negotiations, and I defy anyone to link the two in collusion...