Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mention a device known to the fraternity of electricians as the "blab-off." This consists of an electric cord of any length, with an on-off switch at one end, the other attached to the speaker in the set. With it you can turn off the sound as you wish, while the picture continues. Any electrician will install this thing for a trifling fee. The viewer then need not pay to the sponsor the "heavy tribute" of listening to commercials "in exchange for often dubious pleasure...
...underscore this toughening line, the U.S. State Department last week announced that Russia has a new defector from its literary ranks. Arkady Belinkov, 47, a Soviet literary critic whose best-known work is a biographical essay on Author Yuri Tynianov, has decided that he and his wife wish to remain in the U.S., where they have been visiting for two weeks...
...TEMPTATIONS: WISH IT WOULD RAIN (Gordy). The five boys from Motown display a studied sophistication that might be called "hybrid Soul." They are backed up by an outfit that sounds like a cross between the Vienna Philharmonic, Herb Alpert and an electrified Gene Autry. The occasional catch in the throat and sad hoot do not a soul sound make, but the music is entirely inoffensive. Besides, the cover photograph depicting The Temptations as utterly defeated Foreign Legionnaires has to be the funniest of the year...
...Kael maintained, "was not produced because people don't love each other enough, and it is non-sense to give us dinner-party snubs as the beginnings of the gas chambers. I can easily imagine avoiding Kramer and Mann at a party, but I would not incinerate them. (I wish I could be sure they would treat me the same...
...just worse off." Otis Garnand, an auto-parts dealer, was moved by his night among the vagrants. "I thought there'd be camaraderie on skid row, like in a neighborhood bar," he said. "But I was wrong. There's deep hostility there, and it touched me -I wish I knew what could be done...