Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first to nominate Charles Van Doren as the "Man of the Year." And in the even far more distant future, I would nominate this particular egghead as the 1960 replacement for Adlai Stevenson (if he were 35 by then). By way of politics, which camp claims Charlie Van Doren...
...DISTANT DRUM (500 pp.)-Charles Bracelen Flood - Houghton Mlfflin...
...convey the mellowness of time passing, Author Flood goes in relentlessly for air-cooled, clip-fed flashbacks. He has a hostly urge to escort the reader to the best schools, streets, shops and restaurants, like a kind of fictional branch of the A.A.A. Persistently understated and overbred, A Distant Drum belongs to the Forest Lawn of American writing where the cosmetician's art skillfully mimics but cannot summon life...
Reider's fourth place finish to Ron Delany of Villanova, and Pete Harpel's fourth in the 35-pound weight were all the track team could garner, as Villanova completely dominated the meet, with Manhattan a distant second...
Visit to a Small Planet (by Gore Vidal) attracted considerable attention as a satirical TV yarn about a man from a distant and civilized planet who. via flying saucer, visits his "hobby," the Earth. It later aroused considerable speculation as to how, without being sadly watered down, a good saucerful of TV fun could fill a regulation soup bowl of a play. The problem has been solved, on the whole quite happily, by not turning Visit to a Small Planet into a play. It has been turned, instead, into a kind of vaudeville show, with two expert comedians, Cyril Ritchard...