Word: johnsonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roth, among others, have been blacklisted for not presenting the most admirable views of American character. But blacklisting was not Shakespeare's idea; it was started 15 years ago, and has been continued fitfully since. Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night was first banned during the Johnson years...
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs is one of Washington's trickier jobs-explaining Foggy Bottom to the press and country at large. It is an office that has been vacant since the Johnson Administration left town. Now President Nixon has found a man with a delicate touch to take on the assignment: Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins, who minded the command module while Comrades Armstrong and Aldrin descended for the moon landing. Though the post usually goes to a newsman, Collins believes he has some unique qualifications for the task. "We can talk very clearly from...
Also on the way out is Arte Johnson, the show's man of miens since the first season. So far this year, Johnson has taped guest appearances on specials with Frank Sinatra Jr., Flip Wilson and Jimmy Durante. Coming up are four more guest shots, and an Arte Johnson special is on tape and ready to be run. NBC is also deep in discussion of an "Arte Johnson Show" for next season, which would not only pull Arte from the Laugh-In ranks but make him a guest star on any return visits...
...offers to star in situation comedies. Alan Sues, who presides as Uncle Al ("the kiddies' pal") and the sports announcer who minces his words, has a book forthcoming and has written a movie ("A silent movie -it's great"). Ruth Buzzi, the hair-nettled nemesis of Arte Johnson's Dirty Old Man, went to Europe to tape a guest appearance on the John Davidson Show, ended up doing six, with Davidson trying to sign her on as a regular. Last month she did a pilot for NBC; next month she will do a special starring Comic...
...Grand Tour by Christopher Hibbert. 256 pages. Putnam. $12.95. "If a young man is wild and must run after women and bad company," Dr. Johnson once observed, "it is better he should do so abroad." But whether in search of pleasure, polish, or the splendors of Palladian architecture, young Englishmen, usually with tutors, infested Europe for three centuries. With well-chosen pictures and pungent quotations from travelers (including Diarist John Evelyn, Tobias Smollett and Edward Gibbon), this book gives a remarkably funny and extremely revealing country-by-coun-try account of Albion's impact upon the Continent-and incontinent...