Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grim statistics of highway travel in the world's most motorized society add up to an irresistible sales pitch for auto insurance. Cars have killed more Americans since 1900 than the death toll of all U.S. wars since 1775. Roughly 24 million cars crashed in 1966 alone, injuring 4,000,000 people, disabling 1,900,000 and killing...
...Yogi-who bills himself as "His Holiness"-opened his New York pitch with a press conference, at which devotional attention was paid to the $3 price of admission to the Garden. What if a spiritual devotee has no scratch? "I'm quite sure," meditated the Yogi, "that in New York, $3 will not be beyond the reach...
...hide the truth because it can drive men mad. So the reader is advised: "Let us all lie together, or surely we shall all lie alone." Fortunately, Fuentes is a natural-born "liar." and frequently skillful and imaginative enough to rivet the attention. Even his windy sales pitches from the existential soapbox are not without charm and vitality. It is as if Fuentes were more interested in the pitch than the sale. In fact, two phrases in the book's closing lines might well have appeared on page 1. They are "Take it easy" and "Stay loose...
...With its six distinct tonal levels, it is as hard to master as the country's current politics and history. To sift through the grammar is easy enough but the tonal business is frustrating. One word may have two, three, or even four completely different meanings depending upon the pitch and stress you use. There is a well-known and true story of Robert McNamara's difficulty with the language on his frequent visits to Saigon. He likes to make a small pleasantry to his Vietnamese audience--usually "Vietnam for 1000 years." Unfortunately his aides never told him that...
...another stage, Joyce reaches a pitch of unconscious absurdity when, like many another teacher of English, he wonders whether he is getting through to the dim minds hypnotized before him: "My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire." After this, it is hardly gallant for him to accuse the quagmire thus: "Her body has no smell: an odourless flower...