Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Easy as Lying. The recorder derives its name from the archaic meaning of the verb "record," that is, "to sing like a bird." Its origins have been traced to the 12th century, but its heyday came in the late 17th and early 18th century, when Bach, Purcell, Telemann, Vivaldi and Handel wrote a wealth of music for it. Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton and Pepys celebrated its endearing combination of solemnity and sweetness, and King Henry VIII was an avid noodler on his collection of 77 recorders. As orchestras grew larger, however, the gentle voice of the recorder was replaced...
...heyday of the hero, history was a game with few players, and a single man could more readily change it all. The Greeks were losing the Trojan war until Achilles was coaxed from his tent. Horatius defended Rome's bridge with only two friends, and even as late as 1528, Pizarro could overthrow the mighty Inca civilization with only 167 men -less than the number commanded by Captain William Carpenter in that recent local battle in Viet Nam. Now with a cast of many thousands or millions, each leader heads only a segment, and decision is often a synthesis...
...movie, this indoor western is really a hilarious old television show by Sidney Carroll, who has adapted his original for the large screen without obvious padding. Regrettably, though, the sneaky trick ending remains the sort of hokum that good writers have blue-penciled since O. Henry's heyday. Probably no one will object to the bottom dealing because Little Lady is handsome entertainment, mounted with leathery high spirits by a crew who would gladly trade their horses for a full house...
...Politics," wrote Union Leader Sidney Hillman in the heyday of Big Labor's entente with Franklin Roosevelt, "is the science of who gets what, when and why." Under Lyndon Johnson, who clears nothing with George Meany, labor has found Hillman's three Ws aggravatingly hard to get. Yet, despite its president's recent hints that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. may jilt the Democratic Party, the federation's energetic Committee on Political Education (COPE) has already made clear that its 1966 electoral strategy will be, as usual, to support the Democrats...
...baby products and hundreds of other advertisable commodities. But the 25-inch screen offers them little more than sodden, sorrowful soap operas, plus situation-comedy reruns, game shows and old movies. Save for the sell, it might be 1956; except for the pictures, it could be 1936 and the heyday of daytime radio...