Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's best-known bench warmer, Bernard Baruch, 87, came the ultimate reward: another bench of his own, in front of a new library at Manhattan's City College, presented by his class...
...Crossing her own little Rubicon, Norah Docker seized a paper Monacan flag used as a table decoration and hurled it to the floor. Word of the indignity soon burned the ears of Their Serene Highnesses, and swiftly came unserene Grimaldi revenge: Norah and her free-spending third husband, Sir Bernard, were banned from the tiny (½ sq. mi.) country, and their christening gifts were frostily returned by messenger. What's more, by a 1951 friendship treaty with France, Monaco could, and did, invoke its right to bar the Dockers from the entire Riviera. Returning to London, Lady Docker huffed...
After giving Dr. No the giant-land-crab treatment, the New Statesman's Critic Paul Johnson suggested that Fleming fans were psychosocial cousins of prison torturers in Algeria. In the current Twentieth Century, Bernard Bergonzi called Fleming's attitude toward sex that "of a dirty-minded schoolboy." He noted that the women are usually pushovers in a Fleming novel, and cited a bra-and-pantie-clad minx named Tiffany Case, who says not too long after she meets Bond: "I want it all, darling...
...Enemies. In November, Williams will be up against ten-term Congressman Robert Winthrop Kean (rhymes with pane), 64, the Republican winner. On the strength of a 40,000-vote plurality in Essex and Union Counties, Kean won by 24,000 votes over President Eisenhower's onetime appointments secretary, Bernard Shanley, who had strong G.O.P. machine endorsement. Trailing as a poor third: sometime (on and off between 1951 and 1958) Senate Internal Security Subcommittee Counsel Robert Morris, vehement anti-Communist and G.O.P. right-winger...
...dramatist to achieve worldwide renown. He worked as hard to popularize such famed European playwrights as Sean O'Casey, Ferenc Molnar, and Luigi Pirandello. Says the New York Times's Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson: "Nathan had as profound an influence on the American theater as George Bernard Shaw on English theater...