Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEWITCHED (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Based on that old Veronica Lake movie, I Married a Witch, this new series has Witch Elizabeth Montgomery married to Mortal Dick York, and Agnes Moorehead as the witch's mother who objects to her daughter's marrying "something that is 90% water, 6% potash and 4% mohair." Premi...
Even as the 25,000 soldiers in the mammoth maze of barracks at California's Fort Ord were being trained for action against an enemy that might be as distant as Viet Nam, they were already engaged in mortal combat with an insidious and invisible invader right in their midst. Spinal meningitis has struck down 59 trainees this year and killed nine of them...
...these political assets only make a strong case stronger since they stem from a record of substance and consistency. As William Shannon wrote succinctly in a recent issue of The New Republic. "Humphrey, to his credit, during the difficult years of the '50's committed none of the political mortal sins; cynicism, quietism, opportunism." In fact, since then Humphrey, unlike other liberals like Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania or Paul Douglas of Illinois, has gained considerable influence, evidenced by his role as Majority whip, and yet has compromsed issues not principles in doing...
...MORTAL WOUND by Raffaele La Capria. 191 pages. Farrar, Straus...
...nominal heroine is a girl with a blonde ponytail, a little boy's face and a woman's body, who exists as a fixation of love in the narrator's past; the real heroine, however, is the blowzy city of Naples, which either "mortally wounds you or puts you to sleep." The dialogue (in better-than-average translation) has a crisp, contemporary cadence, and the writing can be perceptive and well-tooled, but La Capria pushes his confusingly large cast onstage in the manner of a cinematographer who dabbles in impressionism. Though the satire shows talent...