Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, other books followed, including The Roman Way and The Echo of Greece. But this month the Book-of-the-Month Club chose the 27-year-old Greek Way for its current selection. Thus thousands more readers will learn what Edith Hamilton has to teach about the city where "the great spiritual forces that war in men's minds flowed along together in peace; law and freedom, truth and religion, beauty and goodness, the objective and the subjective-there was a truce to their eternal warfare, and the result was the balance and clarity ... a reconciling power, something...
...outpulled such network favorites as Arthur Godfrey Time and the Tennessee Ernie Ford Show to become the top-rated daytime show in the area. Late each night Soupy's on in Soupy's On with a cultivated zaniness and a woolly collection of characters that faintly echo the bite of bigger wits now departed from the TV scene. There is Charles Vichysoisse, the leering Continental Crooner, perpetually at odds with his pianist, his white gloves and an undisciplined audience at Club Chichi. With rapid-fire changes, Soupy may become Wyatt Burp, the craven, belch-prone sheriff, or Calypso...
...Chamber's tax expert. He fought off Franklin Roosevelt's 1938 attempt to dump him as no "liberal," countered: "I'm a liberal within limitations of the Constitution. I'm sure the people of Georgia want a voice in the Senate, not an echo." But over the desegregation issue his voice was too moderate, and Georgian shifted support to former Governor Herman Talmadge, forcing George to bow out. Walter George said: "I think I'm capable of some good work yet; I would like to be useful up to the end," and went...
...dude reader will be wrong. Dorothy Johnson pays her respects to the strict conventions of western fiction (by now as stylized as a Flathead bluejay dance), but the best of these ten tales of a lost frontier echo Bret Harte or Mark Twain in the West. There is the sentimentality and pawky humor by which all oldtimers of all frontiers recall the brave days. Storyteller Johnson's memories are authentic; she grew up in Whitefish, Mont. with wide ears for tall tales. Her characters are primitive and romantic, as they probably were in life, and she has a surprising...
...listened in anguish to the playbacks while Mohr kept up a running commentary: "That's too heavy there, Anna; in the next line you can be as tragic as you wish. You're weighing it down a little, maestro. Diction, diction. It's ECCO, Anna, not echo. We must hear every word...