Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believer in the so-called supernatural." he said between pieces of toast. "I say so-called because it is my conviction that telepathy and clairvoyance and premonitions and ail these things are really a part of naturel. You cannot photograph a ghost just as you cannot photograph talent or love. But this is not a proof that they don't exist...
...prime, Gardner could finish a novel in six weeks. He was so prolific that a newspaper reviewer once intimated that the author had a ghost writer or two stashed away at the ranch. Gardner's publisher immediately offered $100,000 to anyone who could substantiate the story. "It would be worth $100,000," he said, "just to find someone who can write like Gardner...
...over its current line-up of shows and tossed out nine of them. Victims of the tune-out are Land of the Giants, It Takes a Thief, The Engelbert Humperdinck Show, Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour, Paris 7000, The Flying Nun, Here Come the Brides, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters Hour. On all the networks, the thing for next year is Youth and Sociology. But if you're No. 3, apparently, you really try harder...
...ghost neighborhoods, the symptoms are depressingly the same. Brooklyn's wastelands in Bedford-Stuyvesant resemble those along Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh and 14th Street in Washington. Each of the half-forgotten neighborhoods has a bombed-out, end-of-a-war appearance; about all of them lingers the stale odor of moldering plaster and rotting wood. Peeling paint is everywhere; streets glisten with shards of glass from broken windows. Front doors have been ripped from their hinges, and human excrement often litters the stairwells. Interior partitions are punched through, floors broken up and obscene pictures scrawled on the walls...
...includes the U.S.S.R. in the West. He scorns liberals who "would like to suppose that the world can be made reasonable." Common-sense U.S. positivism is equally misguided. "Every garage mechanic in the West," Chambers writes, "insofar as he believes in nuts and bolts but asks: The Holy Ghost, what's that?' shares the substance of those same beliefs . . . That is why it is idle to talk about preventing the wreck of Western civilization. It is already a wreck from within...