Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. A grainy, gritty double exposure of the spy racket on both sides of the Berlin Wall. Richard Burton is brilliant as a Western burned-out case; Oskar Werner is his preeminent prey from the East. Martin Ritt (Hud) is responsible for the near-perfect direction...
...uncertainty is the same: persistent and well-founded rumors of an imminent merger between the daily World-Telegram and the Journal-American and between the Sunday Trib and the Sunday Journal. Last week, concern over such a consolidation was heightened by reports on TV and radio, and in the Wall Street Journal. Some commentators even suggested that the final plans had been sent to Washington for Justice Department approval. They had not. The precise date of the slow-motion merger, which has been in the works for three years, remains a mystery. But its eventual consummation seems inevitable...
...Bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs never do," goes an old Wall Street saying. To the New York Stock Exchange, the pig that is trying to take too much money is the city of New York. The exchange has long been irked at the city's torrent of taxes-high real-estate taxes, occupancy taxes, gross-receipts taxes, state income taxes and state and city sales taxes. When
...also a faint whiff of post-adolescent Holden Caulfield about John Fist in this ambitious and often amusing novel. Old Pro John Hersey has a deeper purpose than picturing the humiliation of being young, however. Combining the sound reporting skill he employed in A Bell for Adano, and The Wall with the wild imagination he showed in The Marmot Drive and White Lotus, he has tried to explore the collegiate mind, to understand why today's undergraduates are so hard to communicate with, so susceptible to aimlessness, boredom and rebellion...
Court tennis, however has remained almost unchanged. The only major modification occured during the reign of Henry VIII in England. Formerly, there was a small window, "la lune" or "the moon," high up on the wall, and a ball hit through it gave several extra points...