Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after all, a strong admirer of Charles de Gaulle, and modeled his new constitution partly on De Gaulle's design for the Fifth Republic in Paris. Perhaps with his mentor in mind, Senghor conceded in one of his poems that "absolute power requires the blood of the most dear being." In any case, by week's end he had grandly christened Senegal's new regime, "La Deuxième République...
...Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling, by Leonard Spigelgass. At a time when the immigrant mother is disappearing from real life, a blandly sentimental portrayal of her onstage is in such great nostalgic demand that Dear Me arrived on Broadway as a presold hit, with $400,000 in advance ticket sales and a golden barge train of 365 theater parties in tow. Its chief asset is Gertrude Berg, a supermom with a heart as big as her hutzpa...
...Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling is that peculiarly ambivalent Broadway product, the disarmingly mindless comedy that a playgoer may attend without feeling gypped, or ignore without missing a thing...
...kind of justice that demands a life for a life. Like the play, the picture ignores the rational arguments against capital punishment. It simply takes its audience inside an Irish prison and bolts the gate; and then with a world of Irish charm and humor shows everybody round the dear old place, shows everybody how it feels to live in a cell-and die on a rope...
...discovery that stone walls do not a prison make has some fine moments of upside-down humor. When his rollicking stay behind bars is ended by an untimely parole, Filmore promptly holds up a Salvation Army Mission and steals the collection box in order to speed his return to dear old Audton-and (misspelled?) Goad...