Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...female Tom Wolfe. Her new biweekly New York column, "The City Politic," usually provides something extra, as when she discussed the city's unions and concluded, "Nothing's simple anymore. We'll just have to distinguish between good unions and bad, between people living in the past out of stubbornness or out of dire necessity. If the city were sprayed with plastic right now, we would preserve samples of life from the past two centuries, with the transportation system representing the oldest thing alive...
Though he is in a sense a rebel against the old Times, Talese emphatically says that he is not trying to "get" the newspaper for any past grudges. "I was trained by the Times and when I left the paper I cried." He devoted nearly three years to the book not to even any scores but because "I consider the New York Times news. Fascinating news. It has been sitting in judgment of America for more than a century and it, too, should be looked at in detail with the same objectivity...
With Graebner and Arthur Ashe, both of whom have bested some of the world's top pro players in the past year, and Stan Smith and Bob Lutz, who own almost every national amateur doubles title, the U.S. boasted its strongest Davis Cup team since it last won the trophy five years ago. The Australians, on the other hand, hurting because most of their top players have defected to the pro ranks, could only assemble a young, relatively green team, none of whom had any previous Cup experience...
...past, taped NET programs were airmailed from a duplication and distribution center in Ann Arbor, Mich., to the first group of the 148 public-TV stations on the list. After the first channels had aired the show, they would mail it to the second group of stations. By the time the show reached the final stations on the list, the delay might be as long as nine weeks. As a result, NET documentaries tended to lack immediacy when they were not totally out of date...
...network's Sunday offering, as in the past, will be Public Broadcast Laboratory's weekly program. Monday is NET Journal, or documentary night. Tuesday will see NET Festival, a first-rate cultural series. Wednesday will be split among the monthly consumer series (Your Dollar's Worth), biweekly news backgrounders by New York Times staffers and various science programs. Thursday will feature NET Playhouse, a showcase for new U.S. playwrights and BBC productions. Extra time periods will be filled by specials, repeats and regional programming...