Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1940s, the Socialists under longtime Leader Pietro Nenni participate in the Christian Democratic government. But ideologically, they often cooperate with the Communists. This so enrages the Christian Democrats that they toss Nenni out as Foreign Minister. It so troubles the moderate Socialists that they split off and regroup as the Italian Socialist Workers' Party and later as the Social Democrats...
...hardly seems to miss Howdy Doody, Fulton J. Sheen, Milton Berle or Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. But then there is Dave Garroway. Rising out of Chicago in the late 1940s, he blazed the interview show trail with a questing curiosity, melodious baritone voice, quiet manner, and a mind like spun glass-intricate but clear. Plus, of course, thick-rimmed glasses that gave a whole generation of imitators that owlish look. After 1961, when he felt compelled to quit because of his wife's death, he became just a memory. Yet even today, when a videophile hears...
After wartime service with Stars and Stripes, Rooney spent the late 1940s freelance writing for books and magazines but turned to radio and TV when he discovered that he could not make a predictable living in print. He was concocting material for Arthur Godfrey, Garry Moore and others when CBS News President Fred Friendly in 1964 hired him away from show...
...should not be deported. It was true enough, she said, that in 1954 she had sworn allegiance to the British Crown rather than testify before the McCarthy hearings. But she had feared that the emotional strain would force a return to the alcoholism she had suffered in the 1940s, and she had acted in a moment of confusion and panic after Government agents had threatened to separate her from her husband, a British subject. "I have no emotion except joy and a wave of feeling that this is my country," said Dr. Anthony. "I feel now like getting an American...
...genitalia; another surrenders them gladly in order to become a woman. The central character, a power-mad television executive with a superhuman capacity for vodka and coitus, is mysteriously incapable of love and marriage. The explanation is only a cut above those delivered in Hollywood psychodramas of the 1940s in which a white-coated mental hygienist resolved the plot with a five-minute dissertation on the Oedipus complex...