Word: fad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story's golden opportunities are polished bright-some of the fad stuff could hardly be funnier-but too many are dipped in common brass. The tunes, all but one called Imagine, are routine musicomedy, and the lyrics are of the sort that rhyme "baritone" with "aware o'tone." Even so, as crackpots go, Louis Calhern is a Ming vase, and Evelyn Varden provides at least one fine moment. At the Mr. Universe contest, while Steve Reeves is straining to lift the crucial bar bell, she glares at Purdom and hisses: "Don't just sit there! Hold...
...sterilization of the insane. It has now become much commoner. There has been no detectable increase in New England or the Southeast, but some big cities of the middle Atlantic seaboard report a moderate increase. In some smaller Midwestern cities and the border states, vasectomy has become a fad, with doctors themselves setting the trend and joking about having been "clipped." In one prairie city of 250,000, two urologists who share an office do an annual average of 50 vasectomies apiece. Around Los Angeles the increase has been marked but moderate...
Known as the "Build Your Wealth Campaign," it is similar to the pyramid-letter fad which overtook the University student body four years ago. The present craze also works on the chain letter technique...
Apparently inaugurated in Colorado, this newest chain letter fad spread to Yale. It came to Harvard when a Yale sophomore, anxious to make a quick sale, sold it through the mails to an undergraduate here...
High and Dry is an apt description of where this picture leaves its moments of excellent humor. Stranded above a morass of soggy sentiment and damp moralizing are the touches that have pushed British comedy beyond popularity to the point of fad...