Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loss of Memory. When Ike was stricken by ileitis in June of 1956, he found himself too preoccupied to ponder the disability problem. Explained Ike simply: "It hurt." About a year later, Eisenhower suffered a minor stroke, which he described as "a spasm of the brain." Said he: "For 24 hours I had an absolute loss of memory for words. If I wanted to see anybody I couldn't possibly remember their names. This passed quickly...
...Scranton to the Congressmen: "Twentythree hundred years ago, Plato described poverty as the 'parent of meanness and viciousness,' and he urged that society declare war on it. 'It would be strange indeed,' he wrote, in a state even 'tolerably ordered,' if the poverty-stricken were to be 'utterly neglected' or allowed to fall into 'utter destitution.' Long centuries later, our great nation still has what this year it has become fashionable to call pockets of poverty. Our society is shamed and weakened by their existence, whether they be patches...
MOMENT OF FEAR (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Thirteen years after the fact, a conscience-stricken woman confesses the murder of her husband. Nina Foch, Dean Stockwell and Gary Merrill star in the first of selections from past series...
...woman who would rather have top billing than top cooing. Enjoying a last fling at youth, Julia tucks away her qualms, reaches for her checkbook and asks her swain: "How can I thank you?" He knows. So does she. "I haven't cried since The Stricken Heart,'" she soliloquizes unhappily. When she realizes she has been made a fool of, however, Julia refuses to play the castoff older woman. She plots a worldly vengeance that firmly establishes the triumph of age over youth, then goes off to indulge in a high-caloric orgy of forbidden foods...
...poverty-stricken Northeastern Brazil, a peasant named Ze, honoring the saint who spared the life of his injured donkey, carries a cross "as heavy as Christ's" 30 miles to the Church of Santa Barbara in Bahia. In the city, Ze's wife Rosa is seduced by a sneering pimp. Next morning a vindictive priest refuses to let Ze enter the church, scorning his promise to the saint as a pagan vow made through an intermediary god at a macumba ceremony. "Black magic," cries the priest. Ze shakes his head sadly. "My church has no image of Santa...