Word: craning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...review on Polish philosophy featured a huge bellows all but blowing people off the street with an endless stream of wind. For two books about Republicanism, there was a stout, complacent elephant in morning coat. The review of John Hersey's Algiers Motel Incident produced a long-beaked crane in judicial robes that was as bitterly mocking an image as any that Hersey could hope to evoke...
...STEPHEN CRANE by R. W. Stallman. 664 pages. Braziller...
...there is nothing going for him beyond his own confidence in his genius, the pugnacious young artist always takes on God. That is understandable; if he can convince God of his superiority, the public will be a cinch. When he wrote his challenge to the Deity in 1895, Stephen Crane was only 24, but he had already won his public as the author of the flawless Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage. He may have been thinking of God as well as the critics when he chortled: "They used to call me that ter rible young rascal...
...used to it. I've had plenty of practice. Like 22 appearances on radio and television in one week. Sometimes it's really funny when people start interviewing. I remember one time Les Crane did an interview on the radio, and he started by saying 'Here, Rex. Here, Rex; here, boy.' And I said, 'Is that the way you introduce Rex Harrison if you're lucky enough to get him?' And there were no more digs...
Astonished by the break in his usual four-letter rhetoric, she asked: "Who wrote that?" "I did," confessed Mitchum. "When I was 15. I was Bridgeport's answer to Nathalia Crane."* For once he was not swaggering. He once wrote an oratorio for a Jewish-refugee-benefit show produced and directed by Orson Welles. He wrote a short story, Thunder Road, and got it turned into a film co-starring his son Jim. He also composed two original songs for the picture...