Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the locally recruited Territorial army-they surged through Algiers streets toward the Casbah. Coolly checking window stickers of parked cars, they passed over those with European names, overturned and burned cars bearing Moslem names. They smashed Moslem shops, tore up the seats and ripped down the screen in a Moslem cinema, burned open market stalls. One crowd of boys and girls invaded a butcher's shop, and with a meathook taken from it, hacked a Moslem to death in a nearby street...
Lured onto a speakers' platform in Asheville, N.C. by the General Federation of Women's Clubs, frosty-haired old (79) Poet Carl Sandburg sat bemusedly while a TV show was praised. Then he took aim at the 21-in.-screen hog caller for the world ("When we reach the stage where all of the people are entertained all of the time, we will be very close to having the opiate of the people"), let fly1 at the plug that comes on little blat feet: "More than half the commercials are filled with inanity, asininity, silliness and cheap trickery...
...long arms chopped the smokeless air of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and the bone rigid forefinger jabbed at the TV screen. "Right in your living room," came the muscular Southern voice, "right in your bedrooms, right in a bar-you can let Christ come in." Wearing TV blue but no makeup, Carolina-tanned Billy Graham was bringing down the third-act curtain on the first live U.S. telecast of his New York Crusade. But as Billy continued his "invitation" ("just get up quickly and come right on down"), he was drowned out in a cue mixup...
...daytime pea-pickin' at June's end and be replaced by Bride and Groom, the old daytime stand-by that marries couples on the air and presents them with gifts, a reception and honeymoon. Arthur Murray Party, a perennial replacement, has already bounced cheerily on screen in full color, and will move into half of Robert Montgomery's Monday place next month. Although such giveaways as Tic Tac Dough and The Price Is Right trudge on in the daytime, NBC will cancel Home, its 3½-year-old, hour-long "service" show, in August. NBC is also...
...East-Japan, Hong Kong, Burma, the Philippines, India. Author Coates, a son of the British composer-conductor Eric Coates and a colonial official in the Far East, travels by emotional radar. He waits for snatches of dialogue, mystic moods, glimpsed scenes, to flash like pips across his screen of consciousness and tell him how a people feels or where it is going. Such pips often come at the oddest moments. A smartly dressed, tart-tongued Chinese career woman from Hong Kong brought Coates a pair of knitted socks after a business trip to Formosa. Asked the surprised Coates: "You knitted...