Word: bellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diminished seventh, read newspapers while the music plays, shout "à l'operé!" or "à dormir!" when the music is too polite for their tastes. Worst of all for the progressive musicians, French Dixieland fans make a practice of invading modernist concerts just to snort and bellow...
...ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH (536 pp.)-Saul Bellow-Viking...
...Adventures of Augie March is concerned with Augie's quest to learn his own character and destiny. Novelist Saul Bellow (Dangling Man, The Victim) has handed over his typewriter to his hero, to let him tell his own story in his own way. As a result, the book, which has a kind of self-generating power and authenticity, reads more like fictionalized memoirs than a novel. Self-educated, slum-bred Augie writes with a combination of raw, breezy slang and literary allusion that is often bouncy and effective, although too frequently his overenthusiastic prose is merely bloated. But Augie...
...Force lieutenant colonel stationed in Britain, Joel McCrea demonstrates firmly that after 25 years on the screen he can bellow convincingly such lines as, "Hey! Let's get out of here!" And away he runs across southern England, with the wife (Evelyn Keyes) under one arm, and under the other an atomic spy. The colonel figures that if he buddies up to one spy he might run down a lot of others. Well, cars full of sincere-looking extras-Scotland Yard men, who resent McCrea's interference-roar in pursuit, and platoons of snaky-looking loungers, the agents...
Fasting for Impurity. Bernarr and Mary traveled a good deal. It was on a trip to France that Bernarr composed the mam 'hymn" of his "religion of happiness," which he taught his disciples to bellow to the tune of Jingle Bells...