Word: quivering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hornet in His Quiver. The real joker is that Batman has already hit the top ten in the ratings, and the spin-offs have begun. Discothèques have kicked off a new dance, the "batusi," and five recordings of the Batman theme song have already been rushed to stores, along with a single called Batman and Robin. There is even every expectation that grown men will be showing up at Andy Warhol's next party dressed like the Batman...
There is much more to come. Warns Dozier: "If Batman does well, I have the Green Hornet and Wonder Woman in my quiver." Small wonder that kids are wondering what's to become of the older generation...
Just to make potential donors feel a slightly greater quiver in their wallets, Pusey said that "there continues to be pressing needs for additional capital funds in the School of Education, the Divinity School, the Business School, the School of Public Health, still in the Medical and no less in the Dental School, in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in Radcliffe College, for the Nieman program and the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies at the Villa I Tatti, and in a variety of other centers, departments and institutions within the University...
Died. Margaret Dumont, 75, stately foil for Marx Brothers shenanigans in the 1930s and early '40s, who in seven films (Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races) played the society dowager to Groucho's knave with hardly a quiver of her lorgnette, while he pranced, pinched and leered; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
Meltless Memory. Before the broadcast, the children talk most of all about the Wicked Witch of the West-and when they do, they quiver. "I'm scared of the witch," said a five-year-old girl. By the time the hideous chick with the black eyebrows and the scimitar nose appears on the screen, three-year-olds will whinny, "Mommy, I'm scared," while barely articulate one-year-olds chant "Scared! Scared...