Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angry. For the first time, the complacently highbrow Danish State Radio was up against competition. Last week many of its 1,450,000 listeners were switching to crass dance music laced with commercials. Source of the jarring notes: a tubby freighter that flew the flag of Panama, safely at anchor twelve miles offshore, beyond Danish territorial waters...
Also, Phillip Ewald, promotion director of the New Yorker; Hardick Mosely, sales manager of Houghton Mifflin Co.; Jason Epstein, editor-in-chief of Anchor Books; and George Hunt, assistant managing editor of Life Magazine...
...Trop, though liberally sprinkled with titles, seems to have invented itself. The visitors are almost always young, and though they may change companions from year to year, they rarely come alone. In the bay that once knew only fishing boats, as many as 80 yachts may lie at anchor. The narrow streets hum with Ferraris, Lancias, Mercedes and Aston Martins. To be seen at the wheel of a mere Jaguar or Austin-Healey is considered ordinary. To drive a Thunderbird is definitely parvenu...
...tedium sits like a lead bat on this reader's shoulder. Aside from two good poems from Daniel Langton and a garbled experiment in sound by C. C. Abt, the rest of Audience poetry ranges a dusty spectrum from the merely interesting to the very bad. Four poetesses help anchor down the ends...
...from the repertory and has rarely been seen since. The story, as revived by the newly formed Boston Opera Group, concerns one Prince Caprice of the Kingdom of Flambeau, who persuades the nation's top scientist, Dr. Blastoff, to design him a moon rocket with plushy upholstery, an anchor at its stern, gaily-blinking lights and signal flags. This vehicle was trundled off the Boston Public Garden's stage last week and sent moonward with a bang, a yellow flash and an ominous puff of smoke. From there on, with the help of a first-rate cast (Tenors...