Word: classics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case you haven't already heard the classic Jewish definition of hutzpa: a defendant, who after murdering his parents, pleads for mercy from the court on grounds that he is an orphan...
...superb. Perhaps best of all is little Piero Bilancioni, who sits to his cards with the ancient face of sin itself. Indeed, Director De Sica's imagination is everywhere so vital, his control of it so gracious and exact, that his meaty little street scenes assume a classic form, a flavor rather like Aristophanic ravioli...
...Monkey Wife, first published in 1930, Collier wrote an improper parable to indicate his preferences and, incidentally, to pull man's leg. It has since become a minor classic in his own special fiction-fantasy style, and belongs on the same shelf as Swift's Houyhnhnms, Karel Capek's newts, and with all those who like to move to the other side of the zoo bars the better to observe mankind. Its reissue now is a lively event in a dull publishing season...
...addition to her current work as department chairman, Mrs. Gaposchkin is completing a book on novae, A nova is an explosive variety of variable star, which can best be described by a telegram that is a classic in astronomical circles: "Star Swells Up and Bursts...
...Chippendale is famous." With no Chippendale to turn to, more and more modern architects are trying their hands at the designer's art, turning out a new kind of furniture to fill the empty rooms of their new buildings. The result is a family of modern classics in furniture, from bubble lamps to chrome-legged ottomans (see color page), that completes the modern picture as harmoniously as Sheraton and Chippendale fitted the classic Georgian settings of their...