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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This article is especially important to me since I am deaf and miss most of the verbalizations of the show. When my wife, who can hear, explains them to me, they just don't seem funny. Your story effectively delineated that lost spontaneity...
Reserve Army. At the Willard, 600 full-time workers toil, helped by 1,300 part-time volunteers. No one scurries down the carpeted corridors; no voices are raised ("Miss Gaylord, tell the visitor precisely what you do here. About three minutes will do, thank you"). The Nixonites have put on magnetic tape more than 1,100,000 names and addresses of a reserve army of workers. National Director John Warner says his goal is 5,000,000 names by Nov. 5. Within 72 hours, Warner boasts, leased computers across the nation can crank out 5,000,000 letters...
...drink a beer that is praised by a Negro? There was also the feeling that the sight of a black face would destroy the carefully contrived fantasy world of the TV ad; the sponsors were worried that the viewer would suddenly exclaim, "Hey, there's a Negro!"-and miss the message. Recently, however, a test commercial featuring a Negro mother talking about Pampers, a disposable diaper, showed that 60% of the viewers in the South did not recall the actress's race. Still, some Southern-based sponsors-among them several tobacco companies-argue that "we're salesmen...
...People are so disillusioned," Miss Renee D. Chotiner '70 explained. "They are not aware of the urgency of the issue and are not giving adequate weight to the possibility for constructive action," she stated...
...that matter, John Cunningham, playing the young intellectual who hires Zorba to run the mine he has inherited, does little to suggest that he is Greek (which in this version, unlike the film, he is). But like Miss Karnilova, he compensates handily. As Niko, the man Zorba teaches how to live, Cunningham works hard to make his characterization more than the dull stiff it easily could be. He is, of course, helped out by the writing. Joseph Stein, the author of the show's book, establishes Niko quickly in the second scene and never allows him to fade from view...