Word: gadabout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another program that might appeal to Freddie is Sword of Justice, which sounds like a cross between The Green Hornet and The Scarlet Pimpernel. After serving five years in prison on a bum rap, the hero (Dack Rambo) emerges to be come a handsome, sexy and rich gadabout by day. But at night he is a handsome, sexy and rich scourge of evildoers. Zap! Zap! Or, yawn, yawn...
Plainly, the nation is witnessing a new form of nomadness, already epidemic and spreading fast. Why? Even though the craze began in California, it is not necessarily incomprehensible. Many observers shrug off the outbreak of vanaticism as merely an acute fling of the gadabout restlessness always evident in America. Any Pop sociologist might be tempted to interpret the van binge as simply a bizarre elaboration of the American's longtime romance with the automobile. At one time, folklore attributed the increase in vans to newly liberated youth's need for a convenient trysting place; indeed, the current...
Certainly the Crimson coach has introduced theories which Harvard football fans have never seen. The gridiron Puritanism that characterized Yovicsin's football philosophy has been transformed into a wild athletic gadabout. Shifts, multiple sets, motion, passes, reverses, along with a host of other different--and sometimes unorthodox--techniques, have become part of the Harvard football vocabulary...
...Gaines (TIME, May 10) is one of the best writers in America, of any color or persuasion. This book, adapted from the longest story in his fine 1968 collection Bloodline, tells about a Louisiana black boy and his young parents, who are separated because the wife objects to her gadabout husband's secondhand car, coming together again only when he burns it up publicly to get himself back into his wife's good graces. Painful, hilarious and humane, it is so good a story that the illustrations, which are not bad, seem like a desecration...