Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guild's President Lawrence Langner thinks that scripts cater to parochial Broadway tastes, insists that the rest of the nation is not so fond of rape, reefers and sodomy. His views won front-page attention in a recent issue of Variety under the banner: FOLKS DON'T DIG THAT FREUD. And Broadway Critic John Chapman has been offering a similar warning: the theater is in atrophy, he suggests, because it has lost faith in the spirit...
Most critics panned the work, but the audience seemed to dig it despite the fact that it followed that popular old war horse, Les Sylphides. The audience's reaction, observed one ardent avant-gardist, was entirely natural. "Thunder," said he, "is alive. Sylphides is like old toothpaste stuck in your teeth...
...natives seemed lost at only one point-in the more advanced sections of Mann's The Evolution of Jazz, which traces jazz development from the hottest New Orleans to the coolest of the cool. The Africans decidedly did not dig modern jazz. Recalls one critic: "It was almost like watching a class that had mastered the trick of counting in cowrie shells being whisked by rapid stages through the intricacies of higher mathematics to Einstein's theory of relativity...
After the Paar walkout that was heard round the world (TIME, Feb. 22), things looked bad for a while. General David Sarnoff, jeered the Herald Tribune's Columnist Art Buchwald, had ordered "NBC's First Territorial Lawyers' Brigade to surround Paar's house and dig in. All leaves of the Fourth Airborne Public Relations Division were canceled, and every vice president under the age of 70 was mobilized and armed with statements." Then Jack finally decided to take a vacation in Hawaii and Hong Kong-but for some reason, he went by way of Florida. Somehow...
...reach Cape Dorset will tell Houston: "I brought a block for a print along. It's no good, of course. I'm ashamed of it. As a matter of fact, I think it fell off the sled." While he is pro testing, his wife will go out, dig the block out from under some skins at the bottom of the sled...