Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood one day last week, Actress Shirley MacLaine began running over her lines. "How the hell are you, Khrush? I'm goddammed glad you're here. Welcome to our country; and welcome to 20th Century-Fox, and I hope you enjoy seeing how Hollywood makes a musical. We're going to shoot the can-can number without pants." Like most of Hollywood, which was like most of the U.S., Shirley MacLaine had the Khrushchev visit on her mind (she is an official movie hostess) and, since it was inevitable, saw no reason for not relaxing and making...
...Norman Douglas was revered, honored and loved by the people of Capri: he was one of only two free citizens of that island. (Benedetto Croce was the other.) He was liberal, progressive, scholarly and impeccably well-mannered in his writings and his regard for people and their right to enjoy the "pursuit of happiness...
...play at least one of the master's compositions. It could be no other way. At 74, the sprightly Basque musician stands at the top of his art, a man who has spent a lifetime studying "the angels' instrument." teaching others to play and the world to enjoy its mellow music. Salzedo. says Conductor Leopold Stokowski, "has expanded our whole understanding of the harp...
...bring out the delicate riches, the companies have issued no fewer than 173 baroque chamber works this year alone. Bach and Handel get their full share and there is also a growing list of lesser Italian composers and "forgotten geniuses" for the ordinary music lover to hear and enjoy...
...time the author's fondness for epigrams becomes almost as irritating as Aldous Huxley's old weakness for brandishing his scientific erudition. "The one thing wisdom does foolishly," Stacton chisels in the enduring wood pulp, "is to overlook the power of folly." And "though women, like cats, enjoy boredom and derive great strength from...