Word: phils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past two years, NBC has lost ten major local stations to ABC, affecting the ratings for both news and entertainment shows. Nonetheless, there were some hopeful signs: the news budget is up 23% over last year, and Tom Snyder (host of the new magazine Prime Time) and Phil Donahue (with frequent appearances on Today) should bring ratings punch...
Tenth place in 1966. My God--the cellar? The Yankees? Eleven years without a pennant. Turn off Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto or Bill White or Bob Gamere (yes, Bob Gamere) in disgust and open the Baseball Encyclopedia, wallow in history, thrill to past glories. Pull out the Strat-O-Matic Baseball game, play the Old Timers teams: '27 Yankees, or '41 Yankees, or '50 Yankees, or '61 Yankees--dice-rolled greatness. "Babe Ruth comes to the plate, the Bambino, with sixty-count 'em-sixty circuit clouts this year, Lou Gehrig on deck. The Yanks winning this ballgame 12-1, winning, winning...
...know. The sixties died long before Phil Ochs wandered into his sister's bathroom in Far Rockaway, New York. And Marc Eliot makes a good case that Ochs did too. Phil Ochs went down slowly, painfully, and the actual moment of his death only confirmed what Ochs had guessed from the evidence of Chicago, or Kent State, or Chile. And by the time Ochs actually made his final break, the parts of his life that might have made his death the tombstone of his time had long since withered away...
Eliot's biography captures the tragedy of Ochs' life as well as anything written about him yet. It does what biographies are supposed to do; it provides a detailed account of Ochs' life from beginning to end. Through Phil Ochs' life Eliot tries to capture the essence of the '60s. However, it becomes the story not of the death of an era, but of its still-birth...
...Phil Ochs in a gold lame suit never made it, and after a few too many deaths -- the Kennedys, King, Malcolm and Medgar Evers, Allende and Jara--Ochs lost the ability even to try. He pulled himself out of John Train with enough time left to see a few friends. Then, years after he died, he hung himself. In the end, Eliot leaves him with Citizen Kane's epitaph: "it's become a very clear picture. He was the most honest man who ever lived, with a streak of crookedness a yard wide. He was a liberal and reactionary...