Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raise a bit of extra revenue, New York State sells its list of motor-vehicle owners, complete with addresses, to the highest bidder. New York vehicle owners are thereupon inundated with predictable bales of junk mail, sales-pitch telephone calls, and even personal visits by hawkers of various products. The situation became so intolerable to Old Leftist Author and 1967 Valiant Owner Corliss Lament that he sued to prevent the state from selling his name. In the warming winds of judicial concern over invasion of privacy, Lament thought his chances good...
...Puck is the thread that weaves in and out of the several plots and groups of characters, and holds the work together. For this, Jerry Dodge is unflaggingly admirable. When he says, "And here the maiden, sleeping sound,/ On the dank and dirty ground," his way of dropping vocal pitch on the second line is hilarious. He darts about like lightning, and scampers up a tree as easily as a cat. Indeed, at the core of his performance are postures, gestures, and movements drawn from classical ballet. Although he is understandably not in a class with Arthur Mitchell...
...Puck is the thread that weaves in and out of the several plots and groups of characters, and holds the work together. For this, Jerry Dodge is unflaggingly admirable. When he says, "And here the maiden, sleeping sound,/ On the dank and dirty ground," his way of dropping vocal pitch on the second line is hilarious. He darts about like lightning, and scampers up a tree as easily as a cat. Indeed, at the core of his performance are postures, gestures, and movements drawn from classical ballet. Although he is understandably not in a class with Arthur Mitchell...
Raising his audience to the sought-for pitch, Carmichael claimed that the police had everybody marked and were ready to shoot. He asked his listeners not to clap for applause because that would only let off steam. "That's our trouble," he said. "We've been letting off steam when we should have slapped some heads." Rocks and bottles were soon whizzing through the air, windows of police squad cars were shattered, and eight persons were arrested. Carmichael, by this time, was dancing the boogaloo at a downtown nightclub...
...small parks all over the country-including New York's Central Park. New York companies have "contributed" more than 5,000 jobs for the poor to augment the list of 14,000 jobs already filled by the Neighborhood Youth Corps. The Citizens Summer Committee's pitch: "Don't come around in August asking what went wrong...