Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kill. In the silence of the ravine, Squires had stopped. He heard Scott's shrieks, the grizzly's bull-like roar. Should he go back? Could he go back? His Winchester lay empty in the thicket above. No. He must get help. Running and stumbling for a mile, he climbed exhausted on his horse, raced two miles for camp. Ninety minutes later, Squires and three hunters found Ken Scott, ragged and mauled, his scalp partly torn from his head, but still alive. The bear was gone. The hunters carried Scott to a clearing, made plans to send...
...down-at-heel and down-at-heart. But otherwise, there is a sharp contrast between two lives badly lived and two not lived at all, and a glorious opportunity, on the stars' part, for virtuoso acting. Actor Portman changes as brilliantly from an enraged but powerless bull to a neatly clipped but bleating, lamb as does Actress Leighton from a hard, sick, glossy siren to a sick, quivering dowd. And, as staged by Peter Glenville, both productions are consistently adroit theater, full of gaudy character acting and authoritative ensemble playing...
...true life, e.g., Saroyan as Tom Sawyer wriggling his canny way past movie ushers for free, Saroyan as a struggling "unproven" artist peddling vegetables during the Depression, Saroyan as a proven artist holding a copy of his first book ("I was so excited I couldn't roll a Bull Durham cigarette"). ""Voyald," pontificates Saroyan to all who might be mystified by this title, "is a way of saying 'Void. Voyage and World...
...Harvard Computation Lab, used to spend their spare time poring over reams of science fiction. The two, along with a few other avid fans, would speculate on the feasibility of such fanciful things as computing machines, automatic "brains," space rockets, and other amusing "toys." Campbell often joined in the "bull sessions," as Batteau calls them...
...Batteau points out, professional scientific papers have no raw, unfinished ideas. They contain no wild flights of imagination, no daring expeditions into the trackless and lush jungles of scientific possibility. There must be outlets for pure speculative activity--and that is the raison d'etre behind the Society. "Bull sessions and science fiction are market places for half-baked ideas," explains Batteau...