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...that he expected a minimum of intellectual effort from his audiences and failed to write a successful opera because he was unwilling to "speak of his own emotional life: to exhibit naked feeling appeared as a breach of etiquette." Mild-mannered Cyclopedist Blom, 66, also sharpened up his donnish ax on the Queen's English and "made war" on certain usages that irked him. Among the casualties: GLISSANDO, which Blom calls a "mock-turtle with a French head and an Italian tail . . . unfortunately used by composers anywhere but in Italy," and TONE (used for "note" in twelve-tone music...
...late. The Tiltons were great pals of the suffragettes, and Mrs. Tilton's secret became known to the sharpest battle-ax of the women's movement, Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull. "The Woodhull," as the papers called her, was a freeloving fortuneteller and spiritualist who, according to Commodore Vanderbilt, furnished him with valued market tips; on the platform she would point to her "brevet husband," a Civil War veteran named Colonel Blood, and yelp: "There stands my lover, but when I cease to love him, I shall leave him." When The Woodhull was attacked for living a libertine life...
...while as Gouzenko, Townes suggests very gracefully a sort of soulful bureaucrat. Unluckily, there is an epilogue in which Gouzenko himself appears, wearing a black cloth mask that makes him look like an executioner. In deed, if the picture survives, it is not because he fails to lower the ax...
...biggest horror-comic publishers announced he was stopping publication of the books in response "to appeals by American parents." Entertaining Comics Publisher William M. Gaines had been a star witness before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. He had insisted his comic-book cover of an ax-wielding man holding aloft the severed head of a blonde was "in good taste, [but] would be in bad taste if the head were held a little higher so the neck would show blood dripping out." Gaines last week stopped his own flow of 2,000,000 horror comics a month, plans...
Must you support Doug McKay with such complete single-mindedness? Must you always run down the recent 20-year Democratic Administration ? . . . We are trying to save the last true and only rain forest in the U.S., in the lower Hoh and Quinault River valleys, from the woodsman's ax. (It will be lost if reapportionment of the Olympic National Park is allowed.) . . . Being a young and never-say-die Democrat, I go along wholeheartedly with Doug McKay's ideas concerning public power [but] there are some lands which should be held by the Government for the benefit...