Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charred Hearts & Politics Sir: It is expecting quite a lot of the Vietnamese [Dec. 11]; to stand by patiently and watch their country slowly disintegrate for a political principle that to them is not only an abstraction but also an invitation to death and destruction. Now, against their will, these people have be come the pawns in an ideological struggle between the great powers. It is no wonder that, contrary to Buddhist teachings, violence erupted in this atmosphere of frustration and fear. We fail to see that Asiatics dislike our disregard for their ancient cultures. Expecting them to adopt...
Score or Drop Out. CBS still has six of the top ten shows, so its loss is not entirely without honor; but where the profits show, in the overall sampling of the total mass of people who watch a given network during a given minute, CBS has lost millions of fans. CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey Jr. has built his success on cold formula: quality be damned, programs either score high ratings or drop out. It would follow that the same criterion might apply to a TV president who lives by such a formula, and rumors are all over...
...TIME, Oct. 30) goes on "twitching her nose into other people's business," as the dialogue put it last week, reassembling broken vases, halting rainstorms, and engineering marriages through her special talents as an authentic but broom-less witch. If the ratings are correct some 32 million people watch this show each week, in which the same sort of thing happens over and over again- something breaks, the girl's nose twitches, the film is run backwards, the broken object is whole again, tune in again next week, same time, same staple...
...vicinity of Rochester, N.Y., over vacation, you can drop by the Palestra and watch the Harvard basketball team play in the Kodak College Classic...
...covered by paperbark trees, near enough to see the writhing of the black necks. "Did she altogether want? Or touch the papery bark, flaking down, down around the grey dunny,* into opalescent scales. Sun and wind, to say nothing of moonlight, had worked upon the paper-barks. Better to watch without becoming involved in any process of skin. She withdrew her hand, finally, out of reach of further experience...