Word: amens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a reactionary little exercise in nostalgia which will have a whole generation of fathers shaking their heads and murmuring, "Amen!" Novelist Robert Paul (So It Doesn't Whistle) Smith writes bluntly from the notion that, for small boys growing up, the good old days were best. The point is illustrated by the dialogue of the title-"Where Did You Go?" "Out." "What Did You Do?" "Nothing." Author Smith's belief is that today's parent too often knows where his boy has been, and that in all probability he or some teacher or other tiresome...
...Amen, Cartoonist Al (Li'I Abner) Capp. May your tribe increase...
...bike, that joey, and you can bet the creeping bent he'll bottom on the gold. He gives up his lollies and embarks on a course of hard yacker for the local John, Sergeant Flaxman (Chips Rafferty). He even swings a government stroke or two for the amen-snorter (Ralph Richardson), bonzer old dag that. It's a zac and a deener and a caser at a time, mind you, but before you can say Yupottipotpong, he's financial. But right then-wouldn't it?-he throws a yonny through the church window and goes flat...
...Sodom and Gomorrah! Brethren, we must not withold our life-giving power, we must spread it broadcast throughout the wilderness to produce good fruit and choke these western weeds. Only Harvard can save; we must have a care for the cancer of heresy in these black and troubled times. Amen...
Annigoni's letter drew a fervent "amen" from Bernard Berenson, dean (91) of Renaissance art experts: "It says everything I have been wanting to say for many years past about the iniquity of the way Italian pictures particularly are being skinned alive by restorers." Other letters pointed out various masterpieces in London's National Gallery which may have ceased to be masterpieces through too much cleaning. Among them: pictures by Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Titian, Rembrandt, Velásquez, and even Leonardo's great Virgin of the Rocks. Leonardo's figures, wrote one angry correspondent...