Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hawthorne called "female scribblers" took over the sentimental novel; as a romantic fantasy it has paced U.S. bestseller lists ever since. When Charles Brockden Brown, a graceless but serious 18th century writer, replaced Italian ruins with the American wilderness and aristocratic doom with Indian gore-in such novels as Edgar Huntly-the gothic novel became the favored mode of major U.S. novelists from Melville to Faulkner...
...took the bold gamble. The white Rhodesians who dominate the Central African Federation tried to dissuade him. They pointed out that Banda, self-styled "extremist of the extremists," had fought for a separate, all-black Nyasaland. shouting, "To hell with the federation!" Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead had even warned darkly that if the blacks gained control in the north, Southern Rhodesia would secede from the federation...
...silly plot necessities. When Tony springs his FBI status on Janet, she thaws no faster than a glacier to a lighted match. But when he produces a TV prop department pistol and identity card, and shows her his clannish insigne of rank (four dots "tattooed" on his heel-"J. Edgar Hoover has seven"), Janet melts into a my-hero mood and virtually orders Tony to kiss-and-not-tell in the line of future duty. Fellow FBI-Fibster Dean gets an erotomaniacal glint in his eye. The boys' joint mission, he tells Janet, is to trap two svelte spies...
...years critic and columnist for the Hollywood Reporter, Irving Hoffman disengaged himself in 1952, began to roam all continents as a sort of gypsy flack. He is or has been everybody's buddy-from Wendell Willkie to Polly Adler, Truman Capote, Pablo Picasso, ferry boat captains, prostitutes, J. Edgar Hoover, the Maharani of Baroda, and countless men of the cloth...
...have the lowest range in the Western Hemisphere, is not a very beautiful instrument. The recording is excellent, but recordings in general are still far from "faithful"--we see the piano and sarrusophone unison in the score, but only in the concert hall do we hear the piano. EDGAR MURRAY...