Word: ritter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eddy Arnold narrates the saga of country and western music from its humble hillbilly origins to its current popularity across the U.S. Among the performers: Flatt and Scruggs, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, Minnie Pearl and John Lowdermilk, plus film clips of Jimmy Rodgers, Tex Ritter and the late Hank Williams...
Another misconception about what's amusing shows in the interpretation of Lysistrata. Marty Ritter plays a little dynamo instead of an elegant, slightly aloof character. So lines like, "there's something about women's temperaments that makes me hate them," come out as expostulations instead of slightly wistful asides. Lysistrata isn't an organization woman: her eyes are set on distant heavens full of available males. In fact, she can hardly wait to be dominated again. Miss Ritter behaves too much like Susan B. Anthony to convey the real dream...
Part of the reason this high-pressure campaign has stymied turns on Ritter himself. Ritter reminds one of a Tammany Hall boss, a wheeling, dealing politician who knows the workings of the OAS inside out. But many feel he doesn't have the stature needed to put life and drive into an organization which today suffers badly from its own impotence and lack of imagination. Privately, most of his supporters are said to admit Ritter's failings, and two Central American republics, El Salvador and Guatemala, abandoned him somewhere during the four ballotings. It is these two votes that would...
...whatever the grubby details of the present fight over the secretary generalship, the fact remains that the Central American and Carribean nations for the first time have discovered strength in unity. For these countries, the fight for Ritter's candidacy has been primarily a nose-thumbing exercise at the United States, and at the big boys in South America who have always tended to look down on them because of the "special relationship" which they hold with the U.S. Also, South Americans consider South Americans to be less "pure" racially because of their large Indian population...
...decision on a new chief for the Organization of American States will probably be made in an atmosphere of sweet compromise next January. But the bitter battles over Ritter have been a testing ground for the small member-states of the Western Hemisphere. They may have welded themselves into a bloc which could achieve veto power over OAS policy, especially if more Carribean states join. Jamaica reportedly is moving to join the OAS. It will add one more to this new force in hemisphere politics...