Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serenade [April 2] in which Mario Lanza appears is brutal. I got a laugh out of it, but a man must have a thick hide to be able to take such blows and keep any kind of self-assurance; a deep-seated inferiority complex must be at the bottom of all Lanza's troubles, and your verbal buffeting does not help. M. L. OLNEY San Francisco...
...committee withheld many of its findings (which will become court evidence), and made only partial reports in most cases. But taken together, the reports told a murky story of top-to-bottom official corruption that got its cue from Perón and extended down to such lowly posts as zoo keepers (one of whom appropriated the zoo's imported canaries for his private collection). Some tidbits: ¶ Perón did his mother-in-law out of half of her bequest from the late Eva Perón, then with a medieval flourish had Evita's brother...
...major truths is a genuine but essentially minor talent. He has a gift for the theatricality of nothing happening, for small sudden changes of key, for the humor of despair. For all its vernacular and even outhouse touches, his is an artificial and sophisticated style, a succinct loquacity. At bottom, Godot is both a neatly fingered exercise in wit and a pointillist rendering of humanity's dark-forest moods. But its very neatness gives it rather a symbolic rat-tat-rat than something that reverberantly makes great gashes and rents. Beckett's method dispenses with the usual stage...
...bottom two players, Repetto and Tamerin, feature powerful forehand drives, Repetto off the right side, Tamerin off the left. Repetto, captain of the Belmont Hill team last year, appears to hold the fifth spot uncontested, while Tamerin should get plenty of opposition from seventh man Roger Tuckerman...
Filling the team out at fourth, fifth and sixth singles will be Connie Fischer, Maynard Canfield, and Steve Gottlieb. The bottom four players, who turned in excellent performances against Duke and North Carolina, will probably be Cal Place, Ben Heckscher, Karl Purnell, and Steve...