Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such skits add an engaging beat to Music, the entertaining-and educational -new public television series aimed at older elementary school children that began airing last Saturday night. Produced by WETA station in Washington, the ten half-hour shows-which will be available for use in schools after their ten-week PBS run-combine the high orchestral quality of Leonard Bernstein's celebrated children's concerts with spoofs inspired by Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Their purpose, says brash Host Murry Sidlin, 37, is to create consciousness raising in music. Sidlin, who conducts the National Symphony...
...bombing attacks in Northern Ireland. But he has exhausted his supply of nerve. It is not a matter of steady hands; a watchmaker's skill is not required. All that is necessary is to pry the top off the wooden box and cut a single wire before the hour hand of the alarm clock reaches the soldered contact point. Usually there is time. Thomas is no longer sure...
...knows the variegated forms of middle age, of working-class London, of fear: "A thin spiral of smoke was curling up from one corner of the top. He could smell the almond scent. 'You son of a bitch,' said Thomas, looking straight down into the box . . . The hour hand was nearly touching the nipple of metal." Atwater's stage machinery creaks a bit as Thomas and his bomb-making opponent are brought together, but the resolution is authentic, and properly somber. The rights and wrongs of the Catholic-Protestant, Irish-English struggle are lost in echoes...
Unlike Harvard's previous triumphs this year over Columbia and Cornell, this one had class. It was a solid, take-it-to-'em affair, the Crimson's finest hour since New Haven two years ago. Dartmouth just wasn't prepared...
Back to pass, Brown couldn't find any red jerseys in the clear. Since the offensive line gave him half an hour to throw, Brown just stayed in the pocket, like a pitcher staring in to get a signal that he keeps shaking off, when he spotted Larry Hobdy breaking free over the middle...