Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Puppets & Bells. The Fisher-trained teacher going into a village does not make a sales pitch but lets puppets do his talking. The school has a puppetry department, and the performances never fail to draw crowds of willing listeners. Then the teacher is ready to begin. Paid between $4 and $13 a month depending on his duties, he usually works by day under a porch awning or in the evening by lantern light. He teaches by phonetic method, drawing the flowery Hindi characters on a blackboard and showing how they are combined into words. When the course is over...
...Gandhi had come to Moscow in hope of lining up Soviet support for a peace conference that would allow both sides to stop shooting without losing prestige. She had been allowed to make her pitch over the Russian television network, where she echoed the U.S. argument that the Vietnamese people "must be left free to decide their own destiny without interference from out side forces or pressures." But Kosygin was not catching it. Without mentioning his Indian visitor by name, he told the 2,000 guests assembled in the Great Kremlin Palace that such arguments for a face-saving peace...
...burned and torn away by the temperatures and stresses of re-entry-is made possible by the M2-F2's odd aerodynamic shape, which provides substantial lift in a fast-flowing airstream. Two sturdy rudders enable the craft to turn, and small flaps can be used to pitch its nose up or down. With such controls, a lifting body returning to the atmosphere from orbit at 18,000 m.p.h. might start on a trajectory designed to terminate near Kansas City, and still have the capability of flying to a landing at any point within the continental...
Wrote Freud, in 1930: "Men have brought their powers of subduing the forces of nature to such a pitch that by using them they could now very easily exterminate one another to the last man. They know this-hence arises a great part of their current unrest, their dejection, their mood of apprehension. And now it may be expected that the other of the two 'heavenly forces,' eternal Eros, will put forth his strength so as to maintain himself alongside his equally immortal adversary." Adds Norman Brown: "Freud and Marx and Pope John: the thing is to bring...
...attempt at the clown Feste, but it is folly to cast this role with anyone who is not also a singer, since he has several solo songs. Conrad Susa's music is a mishmash of styles. "O mistress mine," accompanied by bells, suffered from Mathews' inability to sing on pitch. At the opening performance he did better with "Come away, death," a quite lovely piece accompanied by two oboes and a harp. He is allowed to end the show as Shakespeare wrote it, singing "When that I was" all alone on stage. The lights go down, stars come...