Word: beg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plenty of time in the amphitheater, watching such Feld-sponsored attractions as the National Symphony Orchestra, the Ballet Theatre, Sopranos Dorothy Kirsten and Roberta Peters, Violinist Mischa Elman, Spanish Dancer Jose Greco (ticket prices: $1.25 to $3.00). While most other summer-music producers ? largely civic ?have to beg for contributions to keep going, Irv (35) and Izzy (39) stand a good chance of making it pay. For them summer music may make a respectable contribution to their total income, boost record sales. Their estimated 1954 Super-gross...
...background shots (using 17,500 Egyptian extras) for Joseph and His Brethren, and laying plans to follow it up with Mary Magdalene next year. And the California organizations of Protestants, Roman Catholics and Jews are beginning to get accustomed to waves of script-waving, sincere-talking cinemakers who beg them to scrutinize their movies for "anything offensive to your faith." As one movieman thoughtfully explained last week: "We are not theologians...
...Hobbyist Applesmith dreams of an all white Africa in which everything will "go like clockwork." He has lived in this dream for so long that he has begun to anticipate it by creating clockwork forms of living things. Applesmith's mechanical fox terrier bitch can be made to beg for tidbits. And, says Applesmith, "nothing in its expression reproaches you for denying it ... The owner of my bitch need never feel guilty...
...result, said Churchill, is "a certain element of equality of annihilation. Strange as it may seem-and I beg you not to disdain it-it is to the universality of potential destruction that I feel we may have to look with hope, and even with confidence...
...certain amount of healthy tissue is "justifiable." This is partly because of honest mistakes in diagnosis (an appendix may turn out not to be inflamed, after all), partly because some patients are sold on surgery and demand it as a cure-all (many middle-aged women with vague symptoms beg for hysterectomies...