Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Make It Look Easy. Pitchmen, happily tracing their ancestry back to the ancient Phoenician traders who once unloaded junk jewelry on Greek housewives, have not changed much in the past few thousand years. But in recent years they have moved indoors; first as department store demonstrators and then as radio salesmen. TV, however, is a pitchman's paradise: he reaches a large audience and is visible as well as vocal. "The pitchman's spiel is not as important as his hands," says 36-year-old Harold Kaye. "He sells in proportion to how skillful he is at manipulating...
...immediate superiors in the beyond-a bombed-out no man's land between the living and the dead-are a trio of business-suited bureaucrats in a chain of command that goes on into infinity. The role of the avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore. When characters shuttle between this life and the next, they glide through mirrors-Cocteau's favorite symbol of the doorway to death ("Look at yourself...
...Yenan wilderness. Last week he lived in a Peking palace and he stood, by able and accurate proxy, at Lake Success defying and denouncing the United Nations. His armies were giving the most powerful nation on earth the worst beating in its military history. The proud and ancient chancelleries of Europe quavered at his name and shrank from his power. Washington was paralyzed by the blow he had delivered and by the prospect of world revolution and disintegration that lay ahead...
Last week a project was announced that would add to Armagh's value as a symbol of peace in Ireland. The governments of both the North and the South were backing a planetarium at the ancient See of St. Patrick. His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Catholic Primate of Ireland, and His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Gregg, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of the Church of Ireland, have given the project their blessings. Ex-Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, now Chancellor of Ireland's National University, is on the planetarium...
...West Africa as head of an OWI mission. He came back an enthusiastic amateur musicologist. The primitive native music-its complicated rhythms pounded out with hands or curved sticks on crudely made drums-made him think inevitably of the origins of jazz. He recorded some of it on ancient equipment for the Library of Congress, returned to the U.S. convinced that West African music deserved some better recording...