Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told the depressed areas that they have been robbed of their due by an Eisenhower veto, he has told schoolteachers that the Republicans are responsible for run-down school buildings and low teacher salaries. He took hold of an attack on his religion led by the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale and turned it into an asset with his courageous question-and-answer session with the Houston ministers-and his lieutenants saw to it that the film of the session was telecast in key Catholic as well as Protestant areas. In the grueling ordeal of the presidential campaign, his qualities...
...Detroit, Comic Mort Sahl mused: "It wasn't Kennedy who made the real rebuttal to Norman Vincent Peale and those Protestant ministers. It was Adlai Stevenson when he was in St. Paul. Adlai said he found St. Paul appealing and Peale appalling." Then he added: "These can't be the original candidates-they must be the road company." ¶ In Los Angeles, the newest bumper strip rejoices: "BE THANKFUL ONLY...
...match the flogging power of the Shostakovich orchestration, a first-rate cast was called for, and the Met supplied it: Giorgio Tozzi, Ezio Flagello, Norman Kelley, Kim Borg, Blanche Thebom. The immense chorus sang the English text (by John Gutman) with both volume and admirable clarity. But the clear triumph of the evening belonged to Baritone George London in the title role. His Boris, which he sang with great success during his recent tour of Russia, was passionate, anguished, suffused with an almost unbearable sense of racking inner tensions. As London played it last week, it clearly belonged among...
...millionth of a second is a long, long time in modern science; many spectacular things, such as atomic bomb explosions, happen much faster. Therefore scientists are forever striving for more accurate measurement of time. In the latest Physical Review Letters, Harvard Physicists H. Mark Goldenberg. Daniel Kleppner and Norman F. Ramsey tell about a new electronic clock that they hope will keep time with an accuracy of one part in i million billion. This is equivalent to making an error of only one second in 30 million years...
...years Joan Littlewood's Theater Workshop has turned from a semi-impoverished repertory company into a money-coining enterprise. Wolf Manko-witz' Make Me an Offer, ex-Convict Frank Norman's Fings Ain't What They Used to Be, and five other Workshop plays have succeeded in the big time. None of this particularly impresses Joan Littlewood. who thinks that both the West End and Broadway are "contemptible as art and unsuccessful as business." Her avowed aim is "to break up the teacup theater...