Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most distressing historical accomplishment of Sarris's rise to fame has been his ability to turn avowed cultism into a major dynamic in a film world previously unsullied by grotesque consumer fetishism. With Kauffmann writing for the New Republic, Dwight MacDonald for Esquire, and Robert Hatch for the Nation, film scholarship was not in the "shambles by the early sixties" that Sarris claims. And despite the spiritual association Sarris (and nearly every other film critic) attempts to make with James Agee, he is far removed from that critic's quality. Though Sarris, while writing for Film Culture, the Village Voice...
Accordingly, he began by assuming the posture of a ludicrous, self-proclaimed great man. He immediately apologized for the "conditions of life in the U.S.A. during our epoch" in a most reverential manner. He went on to sing a few bars from the old Jeanette MacDonald song "San Francisco" and then told the story of his life...
Other expected results were the victories of incumbents in the Fifth District, where F. Bradford Morse (R) easily defeated physicist Richard Williams (D), and the Seventh District, where Torbet MacDonald (D) routinely routed his perennial opponent, Gordon F. Hughes (R), for the fifth consecutive time...
...McGee is the creation of John D. MacDonald, author of over 50 novels as well as the twelve-volume Travis McGee series, who is one of the last-and best-practitioners of what used to be called the hard-boiled school of crime fiction...
...French publishing house of Choudens owned the score but refused to release it. At one point, English Musicologists Cecil Gray and W.J. Turner even tried to hire the Parisian underworld to burglarize Choudens. The attempt failed. Fortunately, the Bibliotheque Nationale owned Berlioz's manuscripts. British Musicologist Hugh MacDonald began the immense job of deciphering them and in 1969, the German firm of Barenreiter was able to publish the full score. The first complete performance in French-with Conductor Davis at Covent Garden in September 1969-made the Philips recording economically feasible by saving expensive rehearsal time...