Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that a generation now inhabits these same corners across whose face is engraved the indictment, Bland. However it happened, youth is no longer young. Rarely now do dormitories echo with deep belly laughs, or sincere cries of despair. Neither a laugh nor a cry; only the faceless, anonymous bunch who find comfort in their own mediocrity...
...movement. Lonesome Rhodes is promised a Cabinet post as Secretary for National Morale. But by this time the moviegoer is not believing a word of it, and he may well be wondering if Director Kazan, like the villain of his piece, has not somehow mistaken his public for a bunch of "stupid slobs...
Public & Private. The project was the idea of Czech-born Conductor Franz Allers. 51, a maestro of melting musical-comedy scores (Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon). Conductor Allers yearned for meatier material, and in 1947 he persuaded a bunch of the boys from the Brigadoon pit to get together in off-hours to try their hand at a little Debussy, Mozart and Beethoven. When Allers took over the baton in Fair Lady, some of the singers asked him to continue his out-of-hours musicmaking. Result: the Allers opera workshop, which in short order sang, without sets or costumes, Mozart...
...religion and the National Association of Manufacturers. I went down to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and I saw gutters made out of marble. I said, we got starving kids in this country and here they got marble gutters. Both the U.S. and Russia are run by a bunch of crooks, traits and ratters-I mean rats and traitors...
Danny Kaye is not only brilliantly funny but unusually charming. He makes entertainment out of nearly anything. Yet he has--out of generosity or misplaced admiration--given the first chunk of his program to a bunch of appallingly faded vaudeville acts. Since Mr. Kaye is offstage when they are on, nothing salvages the first hour of the show. One can only arrive late...