Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...zany Marx Brothers ideas, struck the comics as just the man who could help them put their show together. And together, they worked up their format. They tried several titles: Put On, The Wacky World of Now, On the Funny Side of Life, Straight Up and Turn Left, High Camp. Then they hit on Laugh-In and pitched the show to the networks...
...part Prescott's unique educational program. The college has junked traditional academic departments and installed a system of wide-ranging integrated courses that bridge the gap between humanities and the sciences. The curriculum concentrates on great ideas rather than an accumulation of facts. The object is to help each student create his own world view, relate classroom concepts to his own life and become what one school official calls "a cultural revolutionary...
...senescence, flashes a glimmer of the haughty ineptitude that substituted for authority in the Blimpish days of Empire. In one robust, hilarious scene, reminiscent of Richardson's Tom Jones, Cardigan (Trevor Howard) and his lady (Jill Bennett) rush to get undressed. She races ahead-then turns back to help him put of his girdle. And the charge itself is almost entirely successful. The rigid troops move forward like wind-up toy soldiers, under the hypnotic spell of unquestioned tradition. The firing begins; the hoofs and bodies and blood combine. Screams and guns seem to reach beyond the screen...
Does this mean anything? For one thing, guardianless orphans under 16 have been kicked in the pants by the "R" classification. The ratings don't help the Catholic Church much either. Every time the going was dull in the drama pages of the Times, the Catholics' own board of censors could go and announce a "C" (condemned for everybody) rating for some movie like Blow-Up or Rosemary's Baby. Those days may have passed forever...
...Jennifer, who were talking by the side of the pool, saw that no one was swimming and retrieved their kayaks. Jennifer got into one and Ted, who had joined them, got into the water. Tom hopped into the water, secured his nose clips in place, and started to help Jennifer with her roll. Ted paddled at the other end. "The trick is to move your arms like a corkscrew," Tom said, holding Jennifer at the wrist and elbow. "That will flip you over...