Word: cante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highly healthy shape (1953 was a year of record revenues of $170.5 million), Harry Luce looked around for another challenge. In 1954, he and the company decided on a daring venture: a sports magazine that would chronicle "the wonderful world of sport" (Luce's phrase) without the cant and cliches that marked most sport reporting. As he reasoned: "It is a safe premise that there would not be a tremendous interest and participation if sport did not correspond to some important elements?something deeply inherent?in the human spirit. Man is an animal that works, plays and prays. No important...
...Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, as written by Playwright Peter Weiss and performed by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company under the direction of Peter Brook, was the decade's most cinematic drama. In a churning rowdydow of rant, cant, poetry, politics, music, magic, rite and ribaldry, the play moved across the stage like half a dozen movies mingling incompatibly on a giant screen. When Director Brook finally came to film the play, he simply let his cameras zig and zag and make lazy eights above the steamy business; then...
Much of the magazine is free of cant, though the standard obeisance is paid to Marx and Lenin. And along with a provocative article on the development of human talent is a silly suggestion that Moscow may replace Paris as the fashion capital of the world. Nevertheless, Editor in Chief Oleg Feofanov promises that Sputnik will not turn into another propaganda organ like Soviet Life, the other magazine directed...
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Medicine Writer Gilbert Cant may serve game birds in sour cream and black currant sauce, Religion Writer John Elson plans to experiment with braised lamb Bordeaux, and Researcher Madeleine Richards with a prized veal Orloff. Whatever you are cooking up for the holidays, we wish...
...Voltaire and Rousseau, and not infrequently a tourist would stumble upon a dead body ignominiously tagged "For treason against the state." Throughout the 18th century, Venice still ranked as the favorite playground of Europe, but with its possessions dwindling, its power declining, and its wealthy reveling in pomp and cant, all that remained was shimmer and shadow...