Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge policemen and six resident students will bar trick-or-treaters from Peabody Terrace tonight...
Carlo V. Mantini, the building superintendent, banned trick-or-treating because there was "no way of controlling what kids in costume will be in the building"--whether children of Harvard students or of neighborhood residents...
...ADDAMS FAMILY (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Halloween with the Addamses is suitably ghoulish when Morticia and Gomez welcome bank robbers to their cobweb-hung manse as trick-or-treaters...
Above all, it is his version of existentialism, a philosophical air-raid shelter that he erected for Europe's disillusioned intellectuals after World War II, that seems rather outdated today. It is essentially a conjuring trick-a preachment of faith without belief, of free will to no purpose. "Atheism is a cruel and long-range affair," Sartre has said. Always faithful in this affair, never publicly flirting with hope or grace (as did his fellow existentialist and fellow Nobel winner Albert Camus), Sartre takes atheism to its grim limits. Man as he sees him is alone in an absurd...
...trick which always pleases his audience begins with a typical rhetorical question: "In 1961, President Kennedy offered a bill to aid teachers' salaries and school construction. Do you think Senator Keating was on the floor of the U.S. Senate, voting on that bill?" "No!" the crowd roars back enthusiastically. Kennedy pauses, and then says, "Well, he was. [Another pause to allow the laughter to die away.] But he voted against the bill. If I had been in the United States Senate, I would have been leading the fight for that bill...