Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...21st CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Stranger Than Science Fiction" illustrates, through science-fiction film clips from the past, that all those wildest dreams (ground-to-air missiles and trips to the moon) came true. Repeat...
...THERE. IT BETTER BE WORTH THE TRIP, by John Donovan (Harper & Row; $3.95). A few months in the life of a 13-year-old emigre from New England to New York City in the custody of a mother who is almost a stranger. Rather sophisticated, with a semihomosexual scene, and a semi-Catcher in the Rye style, the book is nevertheless remarkably touching...
...altogether too early to tell whether he will succeed. To most of the people in the House he is still that beligerent stranger. There is also the question of his stamina, or at least of his continuing interest. For as was to be expected he is not completely at home in this office, as he is not in any other. "I still have trouble introducing myself in the dinning room," he says. "Sometimes people don't know when I'm being ironic." Well, then, presenting Alan Heimert, All-American, Un-American Anti-Absolutist...
...with it. "When I hit town at sunup I heared it," says a taleteller. "Talk. Everywheres. A muttering meanness. In the Krogers and the A.&P. and up at Pickett's Store and at the farmers' market out First Street by the glass works. Mean whispering, stranger -grumbling mean...
...company of the "soiled doves" that flocked West after the Civil War. All too often, the doves turned out to be harpies. Rosa reports an episode in which a prostitute knelt and screamed cock-a-doodle-doo as she splashed happily in the hot blood of a stranger who had just been ventilated. As for Calamity Jane, Wild Bill's putative paramour, she was once thrown out of a bordello "for being a low influence on the inmates." Money was a more reliable consolation. Apparently, most famous gunfighters, no matter which side of the law they were on, would...