Word: drakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...island nation approaches the climax of a historic effort to vault the Channel and bind her fortunes indissolubly to those of the new, united, booming Western Europe. This decision will deeply affect Britain's relations with 724 million Commonwealth citizens. Britons who want to remember the sails of Drake and Raleigh, and the balance sheets that once followed the flag around the world, are being asked to turn their backs on what little remains of the Empire and to abandon (or so many believe) yesterday's wide horizons for a nearby, still suspect coast...
...comic episodes, they have somehow lost the car and won it back, found a stolen horse and raced it, spent an innocent night in a Memphis bordello run by young Miss Reba, the madam who, some 25 years later (Yoknapatawpha time), was to figure in the downfall of Temple Drake in Sanctuary...
...Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). "The Music of Love," starring Al fred Drake, Lisa Delia Casa, Franco Corelli, Patti Page, Barbara Cook, and Dancers Jacques d'Amboise and Melissa Hayden. Color...
...early 1930s, Americans were being saturated with "tough" writing: Studs Lonigan swaggered the streets of Chicago, Hemingway's bulls and men met with grace under pressure, Popeye had his will of Temple Drake, and Erskine Caldwell's degenerates roistered on Tobacco Road. Upon all this hardness, rawness and ache, a volume of stories descended almost like a balm in 1934: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, by a young man of 26, William Saroyan. The book was a mixture of love and pity and humor: pity and humor for everyone, especially bums and prostitutes, and love...
...their finest inspirations up in tree houses and down in rabbit holes. Nowadays, they enviously twirl around the television screen. Nobody makes a bigger noise on Kidiscs than Yogi Bear or Huckleberry Hound. Accordingly, holiday record-shop browsers this year will meet the likes of Professor Ludwig von Drake (Disneyland), Quick Draw McGraw (Golden), Popeye the Sailor Man (Peter Pan) and Felix the Cat (Play Hour)-all of them shouting, giggling and bleating out jokes and songs with hectic abandon. But the children's market still offers more than a few moments of genuine magic on microgroove. Among...