Word: devil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, said Flesch. a free-lance writer from Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Johnny is taught merely to guess at words, develops no way to figure out new words he has not already memorized. U.S. educators-closed ranks against Flesch, and when they were not denouncing the "Devil in the Flesch," they were damning the "Flesch peddlers." Nevertheless, though Johnny was marred by flagrant exaggerations, it stayed on the bestseller list for 39 weeks, and thousands of parents-and teachers-found in Flesch the angrily dramatic spokesman they had been waiting...
...Hollywood, Cinemogul Spyros Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, admitted that TV "has given us tremendous competition and is rapidly arid vastly improving, with such presentations as the Sadler's Wells Ballet, Peter Pan and The Devil's Disciple, which the people get gratis...
Posturing Conceits. The networks also offered caviar to the general: NBC collaborated with Maurice Evans in a revival of Bernard Shaw's 58-year-old comedy about the American Revolution, The Devil's Disciple. The Shavian jape had a slow first act (more Shaw's fault than the producer's), but when Dennis King swept onstage as "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne, he and Actor Evans had a rousing time matching paradoxes and genteel insults. On CBS, Omnibus journeyed back 184 years to resurrect Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, with a polished cast (Michael Redgrave...
...Black Devils & Revenge Fantasies. A fictional monster like Richard Wright's Bigger Thomas brings out the worst in both races, Author Baldwin suggests, for he arms the whites with proof of the black devil they see lurking and smirking in the lowliest handyman, and satisfies the Negro's revenge fantasies by permitting him to be what the white world has dinned into him that he is, a would-be rapist and killer. According to Author Baldwin, the Negro's pent-up hostility shows up in far stranger places, e.g., the rock-'n'-roll sects...
...judicious use of vibrato. In a concert full of lovely little touches-his method of approaching such an essentially meaningless figure as a trill was a joy to the sense of propriety-Oistrakh even managed to breathe warmth and dignity into the withered carcasses of Tartini's "Devil's Trill" Sonata and Ysaye's distraught Sonata-Ballade...