Word: pitchs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DUTCHMAN, by LeRoi Jones, raises the color question to a new and distinctly terrifying pitch of violence. A sexually aggressive white girl and a sedate but inwardly seething Negro tell each other off in words that finally kill...
...test of King Lear, and he does. In a role which demands an incomparably exhausting range of emotions, Seltzer manages them all. From the first scene, an unlikely, impossible beginning, his Lear was "every inch a King." In that scene he made the mythology work, starting at a tremendous pitch and moving past it. Lear roars, cries, whispers, laughts, almost dances, often stumbles, always touches; he moves convincingly from what someone has called worldly authority to spiritual authority, and in the last great scene he creates compassion, just as earlier he had created energy...
...Remember When . . ." So far, Cranston's tactics have worked well, and account for most of his apparent lead over Salinger. But Pierre is still in there pitching. He bounces out of bed at dawn each day for a dozen or more appearances-about twice as many as Cranston. He draws bigger crowds than Cranston, but California politicians have long since learned that crowd size doesn't mean much in their state. Invariably, Salinger's campaign pitch includes recollections of the days of glory with Jack Kennedy, of his own meeting in Moscow with "Chairman Khrushchev...
...Militancy Issue. Wallace had based his campaign for Maryland's 48 Democratic Convention delegates on a strong pitch against the civil rights bill now pending before the U.S. Senate. But there was evidence that his vote came less in protest against the bill, in and of itself, than against Negro militancy and excesses...
...Arabs." Making a heavy-handed pitch about how Arab oil riches and Russian power together could defeat "any enemy," Khrushchev explained that unity must not be simply considered in national terms but must embrace the working classes all over the world. Some Arabs, for instance those in the oil sheikdom of Kuwait, continued Khrushchev angrily, are "lackeys of imperialism. Can you really unite with such people?" The air chilled, interpreters stammered, the Egyptian Ambassador to Moscow, Russian-speaking Murad Ghaleb, explained to Nasser that the translation had been faulty. "No, no," interrupted Nikita. "I meant what I said...