Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andrews dramatics group, The Puddocks was a rousing success, and in the printed version Young got out, it won an accolade from T.S. Eliot: "A most delightful piece of work. I enjoyed it immensely." A bit of the original Greek retained in Young's Puddocks as well as Murray's Frogs-the croak of the frog chorus that mocks Dionysus as Charon ferries him across the Styx...
...than $100 million a month into the securities market, hold about 3.8% of the dollar value of all shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The recession has scarcely slowed the growth of the popular "open-end" funds.* While sales of the mutual funds' shares were off a bit in the first quarter, in April they rose to $122 million, v. $113 million in April of 1957, and the funds expect 1958 to be even bigger than...
...realized that I loved them very much. But what was I going to do with them?" The hipster is also estranged from nature. In George Mandel's The Beckoning Sea, the suicide-bent hero runs screaming along a beach, and "with a roar the ocean came up and bit at him with its foam-teeth...
...Bronx to give him the makings of The Blackboard Jungle (TIME, Oct. 11, 1954), a lurid assault on delinquency in big-city classrooms. His second novel, Second Ending, led him into the sickly undergrowth of drug addiction. In his latest fictional safari, Explorer Hunter's credentials are a bit more solid; he lived in a Long Island suburb for four years. What he still lacks are the credentials of the novelist-shortcomings that not even the theme of adultery can handily overcome...
...good day for Grandmother Boston when the high wooden walls of Puritanism can be wedged apart far enough to let such an amoral gem of a film play at the Kenmore. Not that it's pornographic. Not a bit. It proves the point that sex is an excellent subject for art and comedy without having to be crude or blatantly erotic. Although it is, really, all about sex, it has none of the relatively clumsy Hollywood eroticism of the writhing Presley genre, or even of recent French letdowns, such as And God Created Woman...