Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first arrivals at Plaine des Jarres airport were Red Prince Souphanouvong and his halfbrother, Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma, who traveled from their nearby headquarters aboard a Soviet-made Hound helicopter. Twenty minutes later a transport from Vientiane touched down, and out stepped anti-Communist Prince Boun Oum and his obdurate Defense Minister, General Phoumi Nosavan. Members of the three delegations crowded into a small, tin-roofed army club raised on stilts above the ground...
Fred MacMurray is a great pampered hound of a father with a sure comic touch despite the undistinguished script. And each departure and arrival, of course, require establishing shots, providing the outstanding footage in the picture. There is some splendid color photography of the Statue of Liberty, for example, and stunning views of the S.S. United States...
Pogo has always struck me as the voice of common decency and all the bleeding heart stuff that the Deacon warns us about. He always triumphs in the swamp, because, unlike the world, it is composed of mostly decent people, like Hound, Porcupine, and that indomitable, unquenchable, American boob, Albert the Alligator (who "leads a life of noisy desperation"). For all the politics and satire that appear in Pogo, the swamp is really a wonderfully apolitical sort of place. Politics, the booted and shifted movements, are left to a few moral hoodlums and bullies like Mole...
...that same time last week, out on a rolling estate at McLean. Va., Attorney General and Mrs. Robert Kennedy were having a luncheon in honor of Poet Robert Frost. The guest list was an exclusive nine people, and the bright talk ranged from Francis Thompson's The Hound of Heaven to Astronaut John Glenn's identity with God in outer space...
...Hound of Heaven (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). An Easter reading of Francis Thompson's religious poem...