Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Typical of a business where the decision-makers blame their audiences' tastes rather than their own for what gets on the air, Dozier produced not only Batman but also two other series that contributed to TV's debasement during that period-Green Hornet and The Tammy Grimes Show. Tammy, an implausible sitchcom about a mindless heiress, lasted only four weeks and was, as Dozier himself admitted to his class, "the most conspicuous failure ever on television." Now that he is back in movies, Dozier feels free to lecture his longtime TV colleagues. "There hasn't been...
...rigid structure, authoritarianism, senseless dogma and suffocating ritual, which the dissidents feel bear little relation to true Christianity. What the rebels are seeking, says Boyd, is a church that "will be seen less and less as a building on a corner, to be visited to indulge in a period of 'magic'. Smaller Christian communities will replace larger ones; clergy will be employed in 'the world,' with only distant memories of a priestly mystique...
...happen-to-us hand wringers. Heinrich Boll (Billiards at Half-Past Nine) constitutes a school of his own. His writing skills seem at first oldfashioned, but they always turn out to be just right for hitting his targets: hypocrisy, his countrymen's haste to forget the Hitlerite period, the greed of the fat-cat crowd. In this short caper, set in today's Rhineland, a German army Jeep is burned by an intelligent young soldier with the active help of his equally intelligent father. The act is deliberate and they offer no defense at their trial. German courtroom...
This prediction assumes that a large majority of the more than 225,000 graduating seniors recently made ineligible for further deferment by General Lewis B. Hershey's directive will prefer induction to enlistment because of the shorter period of service...
...wasn't until late in the third period that Harvard got going again. Starting at his 47, quarterback Ric Zimmerman moved his team to the Dartmouth 9 in five plays. A pass down the middle to Joe Cook got the score. The two-point conversion attempt failed, and Dartmouth led 14-13 with 13 minutes...