Word: coaxings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zionist Mason. Jessel's real specialty is funerals. Nobody in Hollywood gets buried properly unless Georgie is there to coax a few tears in remembrance. He has played 250 funerals so far, and the most cherished of his eulogies he has included in two of his anthologies. Who can ever forget what he said at Fanny Brice's bierside: "Now my hands fasten to my heart in lament for this all-too-soon exit from the scene. But the great Playwright of this ever-beginning, never-ending plot, the Master Director who so skillfully stages this tightly woven...
...chief profiteer from this process is the "panic peddler" or "blockbuster"-the real estate agent who buys cheap from frightened whites, sells dear to Negroes who cannot buy anywhere else. (Last week's bill specifically prohibited blockbusting by making it unlawful for real estate agents to coax homeowners into selling by alarming them with stories of a Negro influx.) Wherever white residents resist the impulse to get out and cooperate in integrating a Negro family in a neighborhood instead, values not only fail to fall but frequently rise. The first Negro family moved to Baldwin, L.I., eight years...
...Hestons, their son Fraser, 11 (who played the infant Moses in The Ten Commandments), and adopted daughter, Holly Ann, 5, live sedately in an eight-room house on a ridge high over Coldwater Canyon near Hollywood. His major indulgence is a private tennis court, onto which he likes to coax name pros, who regularly clobber him. Otherwise, "Chuck" Heston, as friends call him, mostly stays inside doing calisthenics and culling scripts. It doesn't bother him to be called a square. "So," he says, "were Moses...
Tough & Folksy. The university's up ward reach began in 1954 with the promotion of Ellis, a placid history pro fessor and dean, to the presidency. He turned into a tough administrator who managed to excite his faculty even while driving it hard, yet remained folksy enough to coax money out of a rural legislature. A new four-year medical center opened in 1956, now trains 316 students, treats 10,000 hospital patients and 65,000 clinic patients a year. Ellis worked to promote a $75 million state bond issue in 1956, a third of it going to finance...
...source of life which has to be continuously rediscovered, to show its expansion as a phenomenal event." His Fixed Star may recall a revolving ballroom chandelier, but his intention is to turn art inside out: his light rays reach out into the spectator's space rather than coax him into their framework...