Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the sprightly tunes of Dick Brown and Clarence Chang, and the lyrics of Lucy Barry and company. Brown's first song, "Mother Knows Best" is a little too much of the brass musical to be comprehended by children, but adults roar with delight at the Broadway step and brash voices of Maryanne Goldsmith, Sally Shoop, and Anne Adams. Most of the other songs, which were written by Chang, are better suited to infant ears, and Brown redeems himself with the finale--"Flowers Are Dancing...
...great, he asks, is the responsibility of each man for the welfare of his fellows? The answer to this overwhelming question is a dramatized version of the biblical Golden Rule, set as a costume piece during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The protagonist of the play is a brash but cowardly deserter from the Hungarian army who takes refuge in the home of his former mother-in-law. That lady, a countess and sort of philosophical fairy godmother, teaches him what he should have learned in Sunday school and provides him with a brand new backbone...
Sammy thinks he used to be a pretty brash fellow. "You know," he says. "I'd fluff [i.e., insult] somebody, even a good friend, and then think. 'Well, I'll make it up to him some day.' Then I had the accident, and I found I had friends...
...doing this just for circulation, remember Judas.' Well, it did start that way. But after three days, my motives had grown quite complex-until now I think only God can sort them out. We've managed to project God and Jesus Christ in a brash, vulgar tabloid. I think we've done a lot of good...
Married. Betty Hutton (real name: Betty June Thornburg), 34, brash, bouncy Hollywood dancer-songstress (The Greatest Show on Earth); and Alan Livingston, 38, Capitol Records vice president; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...