Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Could be the Republicans will get political rabies from Sherm's clean hound's tooth...
...minutes late ("Miss So-and-So," he snapped to a girl who was attending a presidential staff meeting, "you were late three mornings this week!"). Papers shoot into his office and out as fast as his bedeviled secretaries can scoot. "Nobody," says a staffer, "can polish a desk clean...
...total of 17 witnesses, mostly actors, directors and musicians, refused to make it clear whether they were or recently had been Communists. The whole batch together proved that the frenetic blacklisting by Red Channels, much criticized for its scattergun damage to innocent bystanders, had also scored some clean misses. They also proved a remarkable medical fact: it is still possible in mid-1958, after Korea, after Hungary, after the Kremlin's own post-Stalin confessions, for an apparently sophisticated U.S. citizen to be, or at least make noises that sound very much like, a Communist or a fellow traveler...
...Carlo Menotti, who taught Hoiby at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. The opera had tension as well as lyric elasticity, especially when the postman-lover fell into a charmed sleep by the fire and the wife sang a lilting incantation. With both audience and critics, Composer Hoiby scored a clean hit. Said Rome's daily Il Messaggero: "It is impossible to doubt Hoiby's musical quality . . . The vitality of Chekhov could not be caught better than this...
...Slums. Puerto Rico nowadays is an exciting, sunny, scrubbed and cultured place to be. In terrain, it is a blue central mountain range skirted with rustling fields of sugar cane, crisscrossed with winding blacktop roads; the land is dotted with clean villages that still have the Spanish colonial look. The island would fit tidily inside Connecticut. With a population of 2,300,000, Puerto Rico is as crowded as the U.S. would be if all the people in the world were packed into...