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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gilbert and Sullivan Players' Sorcerer has powerful magic. Depending on whether they believed their tickets or their programs, at 8:00 or 8:30 in trooped the opening-nightdress: grim. Two hours later they streamed out: smiling. The G & S Sorcerer cast a spell on them, from the start: "Forget your notes of mournful lay," the chorus commanded, "and from your throats pour joy today." All obeyed...
...house bordered a fair way of Kuala Lumpur's rambling Selangor Golf Club, where the Tunku shot his daily round. From tee to green, Lee tried to convince Abdul Rahman that Singapore's rickety coalition could never survive another election, and that a Red Singapore could only spell trouble for Malaya. Gradually, the Tunku came to the frightening conclusion that Singapore might well become "a Chinese Cuba...
...film is mailed to headquarters in Chicago, where its coded streaks and dots show what channels the set was tuned to, when, and for how long. By correlating this information with program schedules, Nielsen's tabulators and a clacking IBM 1410 computer crank out the ratings that spell life or death for most shows...
Penn took better advantage of the breaks afforded them than did the home nine. Good bunting (Penn turned sacrifice bunts into safeties where Crimson bunts almost always, when they stayed fair, led to outs) and fewer miscues (Harvard had five, Penn one) seemed to spell the difference...
...escaped the tirade was Odilon Redon: his work cast the same spell it does today. On the other hand, the critics could not find words strong enough for Henri Matisse. Even the sensitive Harriet Monroe, editor of the avant-garde Poetry, called his pictures "the most hideous monstrosities ever perpetrated in the name of long-suffering art." As for Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, everyone had a field day. Julian Street's description of it as an "explosion in a shingle factory" became almost a household phrase. Teddy Roosevelt compared it unfavorably to a Navajo...