Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GHOSTBREAKER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Kerwin Mathews plays a college professor who is an expert on parapsychology (ESPecially mind reading) and spends his spare time investigating alleged supernatural incidents. Anne Jeffreys, Orson Bean, Larry Blyden, Kevin McCarthy and Margaret Hamilton are among the guests on this pilot. Sneak preview...
...OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. This spare juxtaposition of a crisis at sea and a crisis of conscience during World War II is so far the year's best adventure novel...
...HOMECOMING is the winner of the Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award as the Best Play of the Year. Harold Pinter's latest drama is characteristically spare, laconic and mystifying as it examines a family reunion more sadistic than sentimental...
...misleading title of this book, not anyone can make a million. But almost everyone would like to try. For that reason, there is usually a market for get-rich-quick books. Shulman is neither a professional writer nor an investment counselor; he is the ex-coroner of Toronto, whose spare-time market speculations made him a millionaire. He wrote his book in two weeks, and in five months it has sold 108,000 copies. As a how-to-do-it handbook, it forwards the questionable thesis that what has worked for him can work for anybody...
...eate me now." Among the conjectures are "disease," "disseize," "defeat," and "dis-ease." I myself like to understand "chair" (which was pronounced "cheer" then), with which "disseat" makes perfect sense. Houseman too settles on "chair" but follows it up with "unseat," which is obviously not acceptable. But let me spare you this ped-antic nit-picking, if you are still with...