Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ARTHUR M. FITTS...
From King Arthur he turned to other critics...
Critic and columnist, bartender and barfly last week got a startling reminder of A Night to Remember. Lest anyone miss the imminent arrival of J. Arthur Rank's movie re-creation of the sinking of the S.S. Titanic, Rank flacks flooded the mails with swizzle sticks topped by the lost liner tilting toward destruction-gruesome little blue plastic models for sentimental soaks to rattle against the melting ice-cube icebergs in their highball glasses. Thus a casual libation might become a miniature marine disaster. ("Hey, Louie! Watch the Titanic go down in the drink.") If the talents...
...special category must be reserved for Arthur Freeman's "The Zoo of You." Freeman can play games with poetry and win them, as he does here. To the moment, he has also kept ahead of the post office authorities...
...those few of the intellectual patricians making up the Cambridge Scene who are tuned in on the main line of American folk culture, the names of Stella Dallas, Dick Tracy, Arthur Godfrey and Betty Crocker are not ciphers in a general twentieth-century void. These names and others like them are significant contributions to a respectable mass of Americana, as worthy of preservation as the Declaration of Independence or George Washington's garter...