Word: exhibitionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Angry Young Men fell to fisticuffs last week. Named from 27-year-old John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger, they are a group of young firebrands of exhibitionist bent who have been rattling London's literary teacup, with dozens of short-tempered novels, plays, films and reviews, all of which have said one thing loud and clear: they are fed to the teeth with the state of both the British Empire and British letters...
...players who frequented the Capriccio, Bach fugues and fifteenth century canciones provide background music at the Mozart. "I much prefer to listen to Schweitzer play Bach than have someone strumming in here. Besides I don't like the guitar much--except for Segovia. I also try to discourage the exhibitionist tendency so often found in today's coffee houses, and I think it is very well discouraged here...
Tuesday night's incident involving an exhibitionist in the Radcliffe Quad was only one in a series of such incidents, according to Susan B. Olsen '58, President of the Radcliffe Student Government...
...this therapeutic method, following in the footsteps of Singer Lillian Roth, a former alcoholic who found fame, fortune and reform through the catharsis and the cash she gained by writing the bestselling I'll Cry Tomorrow. Diana Barrymore's lengthy confession is, if anything, more exhibitionist-and written with the help of the same public ghostwriter, onetime Newsman Gerold Frank, who took down Diana's outpourings in 2,000 pages of notes. What partly redeems the book is that it throws some light on one of America's great acting families, and that it documents...
...started, but no one would bother watching until the bar passed 14 feet. Tobacco smoke gathered over the tight oval of the banked-board track while sweat-suited runners in their warmups jogged endlessly toward nowhere. Hurdlers twisted into weird calisthenics all over the infield. Here and there some exhibitionist dropped into a handstand, presumably to loosen his legs. Hordes of officials in boiled shirts hardly had room to get out of their...