Word: cocking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy grace of a Wagnerian diva. Last week a trim, svelte (25 Ibs. lighter) Juliana delivered another royal oration, and the London Sunday Dispatch gleefully revealed what it claimed to be the slimming secret: a bland diet ordered by a fat, fiftyish hair-restorer salesman named Jos de Cock, who runs the "Enorga Institute" in The Hague. After an analysis of strips of litmus paper that a prospective weight loser licks after meals, went the story, De Cock devises a special diet for a low-calorie fee (sample: $37 for eight weeks' advice, plus $17 for the diet lists...
...specialists in constitutional law, the nationalists-will cavil at Churchill's large-minded judgments. Yet this same generosity of spirit enables him to write of the American Civil War as the noblest war-one fought on sheer principle. Even Civil War buffs who know the last cock plume in the "shapos" at Bull Run will be moved by Churchill's brief epilogue to Gettysburg: "When that morning came, Lee, after a cruel night march, was safe on the other side of the river. He carried with him his wounded and his prisoners. He had lost only five guns...
...with the botch of good will. On one level the book is a passionate editorial against U.S. innocence abroad. On another it is, perhaps unconsciously, a revealing study of a new phenomenon of history: a British inferiority complex-the mixture of fury and self-pity with which the old cock of the walk surveys the new. On still another level the book is a nervous and indirect reconnaissance of the borders of that undiscovered country of love to which Greene is always journeying without ever quite arriving...
...abstract Promontory; Brooklyn's Joan Starwood for her abstract Fugue in Blue-Green; and Manhattan's Erne Joseph for his abstract Intersectional. The sculpture winners: Peter Abate of Brookline, Mass, for. his tamely symbolic marble Beginning of Life; Arnold Geissbuhler of Manhattan for a bronze Bird, whose cock's crow hauntingly echoes the earlier work of Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (see cuts...
...wording the action to his suit, dropped "on all fours and crawled round and round the stage," searching for a buckle that had burst from his trousers. It was in a performance of Romeo and Juliet that 1) Mr. Coates was almost struck by a flung Bantam cock, 2) Paris, lying dead on the stage, was instantaneously "raised to life by 'a terrific blow on the nose from an orange...