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Perhaps because of his weak chin, perhaps because he is unromantically short (5 ft. 7 in.), Tormé realized, he had tried to be frighteningly manly. He made a brave show of it, dated Ava Gardner, collected guns, swooped around town on a motorcycle, swore a lot, got tough with nightclub owners, insulted customers-but all to no avail. "Most women who have dug my music have thought I was a little doll," he says grimly, also recalling that his manager once told him, "With your baby face, nobody cares about your opinions...
...name has a ringing militancy, a brave air of rectitude, and a precisionist disdain for brevity: Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, more familiarly known as POAU. Last week in Denver, at its 15th annual POAU-wow on church and state, the 2000,000-member organization concluded once again that Roman Catholic clericalism wants to smash big holes in the wall between religion and government in the U.S. But it also heard one good Baptist suggest that Pope John XXIII may have made POAU's traditional pugnacity a little obsolete...
...rich enough to dig a two or three hundred million dollar fur-lined funk hole under his Connecticut Shangrila. There is his nice ginny wife. And (what larks in the ark in this subterranean Ararat) his mistress. A Jewish nuclear physicist clever enough to work the survival gear and brave enough to make like a space comic hero in an asbestos suit along the hot galleries of the shelter. The tycoon's blonde daughter. The tycoon's colored butler-old-fashioned enough to do a bit of praying. The butler's honey-colored sexpot daughter. The Japanese...
...Brave New Nothing. It was with grim memories of the Depression, and of the "submerged third" of the population which was chronically undernourished before the war, that the first postwar Labor government engineered the most far-reaching social upheaval since the Industrial Revolution. In today's welfare state -or the "opportunity state," as the Tories prefer to call it-physical and material well-being is shared by all segments of society for the first time in British history, blurring the once rigid frontiers between Disraeli's "two nations" of privileged and poor...
...smugness of their society. It was a time when many of their countrymen were groping for a new sense of purpose and national identity. "Nobody thinks, nobody cares," cried Jimmy Porter, the non-hero of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. "There aren't any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off, it'll just be for the Brave New-nothing-very-much-thank...