Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pacify the warring peasants; the soldiers' own killings and tortures only inflamed the peasants even more. An amnesty and rehabilitation program was proclaimed, and failed for lack of funds. Guzmán divides the back-country killers into categories: "displaced communities" whose villages have been destroyed, adolescent thrill killers, and hired murderers. The original guerrillas have been infiltrated by Communists, who seek to profit from disorder...
...sanctuary of Carnegie, he could sing the old songs that used to thrill his friends but cannot be parodied on records because they are not in the public domain -big brassy Broadway tunes like 76 Sol Cohens and the entire score of South Passaic (Younger Than Springstein, There Is Nothing Like a Lox). Movie tunes too. Moon River becomes "Chopped liver, rolled up in a ball...
Educational is not quite the word it nor intellectual, nor documentary, nor esthetic, but with a subtle amalgam of these things, so-called educational television appeals strongly to what Garroway calls "a vital minority." The programs are sometimes tedious, with academic hairsplitting that would thrill a graduate seminar But from Pablo Casals' cello lessons to Photographer Ernst Haas's presentations on The Art of Seeing, WNDT is so loaded with rewarding material that many people have bought television sets for first time in order not to miss it. In its first three months, New York's Channel...
...Like It." So precise is the teamwork that a single mistake by one man can destroy the handiwork of ten. So many are the complexities that connoisseurs argue endlessly in a mysterious lingo over slotbacks, stunters and buttonhooks. Even the innocent are mesmerized. Action piles upon action, thrill upon guaranteed thrill, and all with such bewildering speed that at the end the fans are literally limp. At New York's Yankee Stadium, where 63,000 hardy souls braved sleet to watch the Giants edge Cleveland 17-13, a man turned fondly to his wildly cheering wife. "Honey," he said...
...scared off by the prospect of a dull ball game. The Crimson will probably make it close just to give the fans a thrill...