Word: monsters
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Golden Water. A mere five centuries ago, long after the Mongols were driven out, Peking was rebuilt. Ming Emperor Yung Lo followed his astrologer's plan to make the city a geomantic portrait of No Cha, a three-headed monster with six arms. Its heads became the main gate, its intestine an open gutter and its navel a well. When Yung Lo had finished, Peking was a series of walled cities within cities, like a Chinese puzzle, box within...
...renaissance of American dramatic writing: producers of plays need playwrights -good, bad or mediocre-even more than playwrights need play producers. The reason for this unprecedented situation lies in the difference between the traditional theater, which may remain closed or run one play for months, and TV, the electronic monster that gobbles up material 18 hours a day every day of the year...
...need for writers of quality is matched by an even greater need for writers without it (to feed the insatiable electronic monster). At the summit of the giant networks, the executives sound very much alike. Says CBS's President Frank Stanton: "This is the time for writers. I think they're going to inherit the earth." Then he adds: "Mass circulation is the important thing, and you pay a price for it. But formula shows often have a professional quality that so-called quality shows wish they had." NBC's President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr. readily...
...Class of 1930 invaded Essex County Club yesterday and fought a brief but inspired battle with 1,400 lobsters (each red monster weighed in at a full 1 1/2 pounds. Tusseling under the white circus tent, on the golf course, and in the tennis courts, the members of '30 were in their finest hour...
After the hockey team upset a heavily-favored Yale team in overtime, undergraduates were determined to get something with which they could legally celebrate the joys of college life. Thus began the monster college campaign against Prohibition...