Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocky Jordan (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS), "long on nerve and short on talk," and played by Hollywood's George Raft, runs Cairo's Cafe Tambourine, where he matches wits with camel drivers, Moslem fanatics, suave villains, and beddy-bye blondes who murmur: "Be nice to me, Rocky." On the opening show the plot was a scramble for some nonexistent diamonds, nearly as silly as the dialogue...
...Ballad of the Sad Cafe, by Car son McCullers. A novelette, half a dozen short stories and three novels in an impressive omnibus (TIME, June...
...McCullers has the pleasure of seeing a fat volume of her collected works: the three novels, six middling stories, and a superb novelette that serves as a title piece, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. Taken together, the 791 pages pretty well establish Novelist McCullers as one of the top dozen among contemporary U.S. writers...
...announces that he is Miss Amelia's kin. To everybody's surprise, she takes him in, and a big change takes place in Miss Amelia. On Sundays she lays aside her overalls and swamp boots and spruces up in a red dress. Her store becomes a little cafe, with hunchback Cousin Lymon hopping about spreading merriment with his malicious tongue, while Miss Amelia smiles happily...
...writing is part of the American tradition of mooning, the tradition represented by Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill sometimes, and, at his rare best, William Saroyan. She can be soft and soupy, but at top form, as in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Carson McCullers has sharp sight, warm tenderness...