Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson and Julie Harris are the ghost watchers in The Haunting...
...STEVE ALLEN COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In a spooky spoof, Allen & Co. suggest that movie musicals be based on oldtime horror films. Tim Conway, Lou Rawls, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara help Steve with the ghost songs...
...occupied territories. The problem was least difficult where people were fewest-in the wastes of Sinai and the heights of Syria. Two-thirds of the inhabitants had trekked from Syria's captured sectors to the safety of Damascus. The city of El Quneitra (pop. 10,000) was a ghost town, its shops shuttered, its deserted streets patrolled by Israelis on house-to-house searches for caches of arms and ammunition. The hills echoed/with explosions as Israeli sappers systematically destroyed the miniature Maginot line from which the Syrians had shelled kibbutzim across the Sea of Galilee. On the other side...
...Talk about the generation gap! Young people are to be fed a diet of musical pap predigested by McLendon and his American Mothers' Committee; only a connoisseur of "serious" music may sample Bomarzo, the hero of which is "sexually ambivalent and frustrated, ghost-ridden, and obsessed with death." One shudders to consider the effects of Mr. McLendon's taste on works such as Tristan und Isolde (premarital sex), Salome (fetishism and degeneracy) and Wozzeck (sadism and murder). "English records that deal with sex, sin and drugs" are what make the best popular music true, if controversial art, precisely...
...Catholicism. Nor was marriage a solace; it was another theater for his inner dissension. He and his wife wrote in separate rooms of a big old farmhouse. Years later, he remembered: How quivering and fierce we were. There snowbound together/ Simmering like wasps/ In our tent of books!/ Poor ghost, old love, speak/ With your old voice/ Of flaming insight/ That kept us awake all night. In one bed and apart . . . They were divorced...