Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...darkness fell on central Newfoundland one evening last week, two bands of men ranged along a provincial highway. Ten Mounties on foot kept a wary eye on more than 100 picketing loggers of the striking International Woodworkers of America, set on intercepting non-I.W.A. loggers. When the I.W.A. halted a sedan to threaten the four passengers in it, the Mounties radioed Grand Falls for help. More Mounties and provincial constables rushed to the scene. Police night sticks and loggers' crude clubs swung through the chilly air. Provincial Constable William J. Moss, 24, caught a blow on the head...
...affair shapes up as still another indication of the inability of high-ranking track officials to cope with unusual situations or to acquit themselves properly in the public eye. If the A.A.U. suspends Delany, its decision must be regarded as the epitome of fatuousness and misguided puritanism...
Somewhere between high fashion and highfalutin' lies a heap of high-priced clothing turned out over the years for a peculiarly critical, not necessarily tasteful eye: the movie camera's. Hollywood rarely originates style, rarely fails to exaggerate what is popular at the moment. If low necklines are in vogue, movie designers drop them a little lower; if padded shoulders are in this year, every Hollywood dress slightly resembles a football uniform. The result is that Hollywood's powdered, pinched, pushed, pneumatized darlings flash across the screen looking just a little bit more like what every American...
Shadow Play. To the account of all this-the fencing of crossexamination, the cumbersome but deeply civilized legal safeguards of the individual, the Greek chorus of spectators and newsmen commenting on the proceedings-Author Bedford brings a superb style and a magic eye through which she sees old scenes in a new way. One of her courtroom vignettes: "Some of the seats have emptied. People have crept out into the hall, to send off the latest or just to smoke, for air . . . Looking back through the glass panels of the shut door, one can see into the court-wigged heads...
Statecraft & Stagecraft. With a female eye for pageantry and a female solidarity with a woman both hated and admired by historians. British Biographer Jenkins has painted a string of brilliant miniatures of her heroine. She maintains that the Queen had a kind of magic ("a quality of incantation") about her by which she managed to unite state, nation and the reformed religion in one person. How else explain the almost mystical response by the London mob to her coronation progress through the streets? Elizabeth, crying "God 'a mercy" to her people from beneath a canopy held by knights...