Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Window. A boy's-eye view of murder in a Manhattan tenement, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...
...when he was 40, Henry M. Blackmer had developed the habit of getting richer every year. He parted his hair in the middle, wore pince-nez, had a dignified squint in his right eye and cheerfully endured high starched collars which would have turned the blow of a Malay's kris. And he enjoyed spending money almost as much as stuffing it away in bank vaults...
...knight was. English translations of Don Quixote have either been pieced together by literary archeologists who treat each word as a rare old bone, and with admirable patience assemble them into a dead monster; or have been cribbed by publishers' hacks from French translations, with an eye on the dictionary and an ear to the gallery...
...Quixote makes a manifesto out of his guiding conviction: "Leave it to God, and everything will come out all right." People begin to take him half seriously, but misadventures come thick & fast. "I perceive now that one must actually touch with his hands what appears to the eye if he is to avoid being deceived," the knight mournfully admits. Yet hand and eye are not enough. When an enchanter turns a castle into a mere mill before his eyes, Don Quixote despairs: "God help us all, this world is nothing but schemes and plots, all working at cross-purposes...
...paced and enthusiastically vulgar show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC-TV). There were some better-than-usual jokes (Berle poking his head between the curtains to ask drowsily: "Porter-what station is this?"), and plenty of corny ones (the first stooge to come onstage spit water in Berle's eye). But, as usual, whatever Comic Berle said or did reduced the studio audience to helpless shrieks of laughter. Even Berle's spectacular records of last year were in danger. Sindlinger researchers made the popeyed announcement that of all Philadelphia's TV sets, 80% were tuned to Berle...