Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where Can We Go? Last week doomsday talk reached fever pitch. Disk jockeys were spinning a hit calypso tune called Day After Day, which asks: "Where can we go when there's no San Francisco?" A book called The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California, which gives a jolt-by-jolt preview of the disaster, was a bestseller...
Blurred Vision. In the Daily News, Columnist Mike Royko gently needled Mabley's pitch for big money. "I don't want to feel completely left out," Royko wrote. "That's why I am starting a noninflationary, low-cost fund drive of my very own. About $600 or $700 will do the trick." It is needed, he said, by Roy Ries Jr., a Presbyterian seminarian who had tried to avoid violence by standing with other clergymen between police and demonstrators. Ries, Royko claims, received a fractured skull and still has blurred vision from a rifle-butt blow...
Ever since Hair made nudes a commercial fad, one sexual taboo after another has been shattered. The logical end was Che!, which promised copulation onstage. It does not happen. The actors fake it. The uninhibited cast has reached the pitch of passion in rehearsals, but performances before an audience obviously constrict the actors. Even so, what does happen would fill an animated sex manual. Conjecture one hour and forty minutes during which each orifice and organ of the male and female body is employed in all possible combinations...
...road, moving from meeting to meeting in a caravan of five huge moving vans brightly labeled "A. A. Allen Revivals." Advance men have prepared the way for them, enlisting local ministers, mostly from Pentecostal churches, to share the stage with Allen, rejoice in the cures, and give a little pitch for their own services. Allen's specialty, along with the cures, is the $100 pledge, and the hard sell is usually made by one of his assistants. "The Scriptures say you got to vow and pay, vow and pay, vow and pay," Brother Don Stewart exhorted the Crouch Temple...
...course, they do-though many vow and only some pay. One night last week, such a pitch brought 35 pledges to the Allen altar on the first try-a cool $3,500 if the pledges are all filled. Allen, of course, is well aware that some ministers are offering to release guilty souls from their pledges in return for much smaller offerings. Some of his most fiery recriminations are reserved for these "racketeering preachers" who question his healings and seek to undermine his message to the faithful: that God will doubly repay whoever gives without limit...