Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until recently, controversy on TV was considered as offensive as dead air. Sponsors would not have it, and neither would the viewers - or so it was supposed. Only a few commentators with clout, including Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid, could get away with expressing sharp personal opinion. And certainly nobody succeeded with blatantly risque humor. This past season, the Smothers Brothers, Rowan and Martin, and Johnny Carson, among others, have waged a deliberate campaign to get sex jokes past the censor - whom Carson sardonically calls "Miss Priscilla Goodbody." But it is in the realm of serious discussion that television...
...Green Berets still do their fighting mostly on the fringe of the big battlefields: quick, sharp clashes in the jungle along infiltration routes used by the Communists. Occasionally, one of their isolated redoubts is overrun (A Shau two years ago, Lang Vei this year) by an all-out attack. More oftenone is hit by rapid mortar and small-arms harassment probes, which are usually repulsed by the garrison. The camps are generally supplied by air, which provides the only link with the outside world...
...major effect of that selling was a sharp decline in the price of sterling on foreign exchange markets. Obliged to buy up pounds to keep the currency from dropping too far below its $2.40 official price, Britain has seen its reserves of gold and foreign currencies shrink to $2.7 billion, less than half the amount that would be necessary to re deem all the pounds held by individuals and central banks in sterling-area countries...
...RAWLS: FEELIN' GOOD (Capitol). Unlike many a soul singer, Lou Rawls leaves no doubt about what he is saying, as well as feeling. His machete-sharp enunciation is a major component of his thoroughly masculine power, and he means what he says. The album's selection of songs is felicitous, particularly the bitter My Ancestors, and the wry Hang-Ups (that manages to use nearly every cliche in the contemporary vocabulary: shook-up, with-it, uptight, hung-up and groovin...
...result, the four wheels on each segment remain firmly planted on the ground, even as the Twister crosses the crest of a small hill. The fore and aft sections are powered by two independent 140-h.p. air-cooled Corvair engines, modified so that they can operate even at a sharp tilt. The driver pilots the eight-wheel-drive vehicle from the rear body. He has at his disposal a steering post for the lead wheels and twin seven-position gear levers for the two automatic transmissions...