Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder the Republicans aren't trying to get Pasternak out of Russia and run him for President. He's a natural for them. He has a gift for platitudinous, humanistic twaddle designed for the female and fuzzy-male vote. As for his book, it's a conversation piece or gift for the culture snob...
...does TV really affect the kids? Not quite so badly as many parents fear, reported three British sociologists last week in a thick new book, Television and the Child (sponsored by Britain's Ford-like Nuffield Foundation). For three years, in five English cities, the researchers studied 4,500 children (ages: 10-14) who spent more time (an average two hours daily) watching TV than on any other home activity. Some of the conclusions...
...Poteet has been banished from Steve Canyon in part because of a distant tie to Lolita, many a reader who mixes some books with his comic strips is convinced that a teen-ager now raising temperatures in Dick Tracy (416 papers) is closely related, indeed, to the nimble nymphet. Slinky and scheming beyond her years, Popsie is fond of putting down her lollypop and bussing the cheek of Headache, a slot-machine maker who is not above bussing back. Cries Headache: "Owoo! That lollypop!" The very suggestion that Popsie and Lolita and Headache and Humbert are parallels draws howls...
...Bell, Book and Candle (Phoenix; Columbia). John Van Druten's comedy about the contemporary prevalence of witches cast enough of a spell on theatergoers to give it a six-month run on Broadway. But somewhere between Broadway and Hollywood the broomstick broke down. Like the play, the picture is about a beautiful witch (Kim Novak) who decides to exchange cantrip and gramarye for love and marriage, and about the man (James Stewart) she sets out to enchant. The part is almost perfectly written for Actress Novak. The script quickly announces that as a witch she is not supposed...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book without a country that honors all humanity, including Russia, though its rulers kept their country's greatest living poet from accepting the Nobel Prize...