Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Trendle: "Without detracting from the thrill and excitement, we try to convey a message that subtly teaches patriotism, tolerance, fairness and respect for the rights of all men." On the air, the sponsored (by General Mills) Lone Ranger is so strait-laced that he "avoids commercialism during the entertainment feature." Off the air, like his great rival, Hopalong Cassidy, he relaxes to the extent of endorsing some 70 commercial products, from wallpaper and hats to schoolbags and harmonicas...
...Scout councils, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, parent-teachers' associations, and such notables as Vice President Alben Barkley, U.N. Delegate Warren Austin, J. Edgar Hoover ("The Lone Ranger is one of the greatest forces for juvenile good in the country"), and Bernard Baruch ("The same thrill I got as a boy reading Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger"). Creator Trendle offers his own recipe for the show's long life: "It is just plain, good, healthy American entertainment which will not offend anyone, because there is just nothing in it to criticize...
...feels more kinship with their sleek, black, shiny forms than he has ever felt with humans. Nearing shore, man and seals edge up on some rocks to rest. On shore, a bored young miss with a high-powered rifle is waiting to pot the seals and collect a new thrill. Two shots crack, but the Negro hears only the first, because "his head had caved in ... And so it was true and doubly true that what the soothsayer had said was sooth...
...superficial slapdash thrill-seeking Capitalistic Spy, but I do not think you can prove it by documenting your name-calling with twisted quotas, misleading interpretations, and out-of-context references. Your eagerness to sling mud seems to belie the sincerity of your criticism...
...doing it, in college to get drunk, because they have nothing else to do, because of world tension and the collapse of all values, to get a girl, as a prelude to sex, to overcome fatigue, to relax, to be different, heats the hell out of me, for the thrill, and for the taste...