Word: pitchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pace of comings and goings. Its anticlerical theme seems partly inadvertent, for the characters show little shading: if the priest is merely obdurate, Ze is fanatic. The Given Word's strength lies in the vitality that pulses through an astringent morality play, filling it with the cries of pitchmen and voodoo women and street-corner poets, the hip-heaving dancers and gourd-rattling hipsters who almost make humanity look worth dying...
...party scenes, she alone does not resemble a fugitive from a Vat 69 ad. Although her eyes seem candlelit with some private poetry of grief, she plays the regal scamp all evening, ornamenting with a playfully aristocratic touch the shoddy show goods with which Broadway's indomitable pitchmen hope to mulct the theatergoing muzhiks...
...with three drops of vaccine. As the vaccine ran low, ambulances (many donated by undertakers) with sirens screaming struggled through clogged streets to deliver fresh supplies. Said one cop: "It is the damnedest traffic jam I've ever seen, but nobody's mad." In the carnival atmosphere, pitchmen picked up many a rapid dollar peddling balloons to kids. "Is this American or Cuban sugar?" asked one apprehensive citizen. Assured the U.S. was buying no sugar from Cuba these days, he munched his lump with satisfaction. Another man had another problem: "I've been drinking...
...were at the end of World War II; but most of them are run on the cheap, and the net result has amounted to air pollution. "In too many communities," said Minow, "to twist the radio dial today is to be shoved through a bazaar, a clamorous casbah of pitchmen and commercials which plead, bleat, pressure, whistle, groan and shout. Too many stations have turned themselves into publicly franchised jukeboxes." And, unfortunately, "radio stations do not fade away, they just multiply." To consider everything from a tightening of regulations over radio commercials to a possible moratorium on licenses...
From all signs, they would peddle a soft coexistence line, arguing that Cuba's Marxist course is its own, and that it has no designs on other countries, and thus should not be ostracized. For weeks Castro's pitchmen have been haunting Latin American foreign ministries, berating the U.S. and stressing Cuba's traditional ties with its neighbors...