Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group is not indulging in some new egghead fad. Host Arthur Meier Schlesinger has always been a L'il Abner fan. Mrs. Schlesinger delights in telling of the encounter her husband once had with a flesh and blood representative of the comic strip...
...promising football player commented that he missed the fan-fare he had expected on arrival and felt neglected until practice on Monday. While a prosaic southerner who expected to be beaten and scalped in the high tradition of southern universities found he could go to his room unmolested. And an independent scholar noted the air of partial aloofness, "a considerable and soothing reserve, a refreshing forbearance from prying into the affairs of others...
...Beethoven fan once said that the only way to get the real "feel" of his master's voice was to turn the phonograph up to maximum volume, lie on the floor, fasten one end of a rubber hose over the bellowing speaker, the other into one's ear. A simpler way of being pounded to jelly is to read a novel by France's Louis-Ferdinand Cèline. No rubber hose can convey the feel of Cèline, nor can his own favorite exclamations, such as "Bam!", "Bang!", "Zoom!", "Zimm!", "Rrpp!", "Rrooo!", "Rraap!", "Rrango!", "Whah...
...Liberace phenomenon resembles earlier crazes over Frank Sinatra and Johnnie Ray. But Liberace fans are more likely to belong to the two-way stretch than to the bobby-sox crowd. Women mob him wherever he goes. They bake cakes for him. They knit for him (one fan contributed a pair of socks embroidered with small pianos). Last year they sent him 27,000 valentines. One grandmother and her daughter have been following him for months from town to town. Says his brother George, who conducts the background music on his show: "He's got musical hypnosis." Says his manager...
...more cynical American admirers, "it's Tynan two to one." He has an unerring eye for the sorest point, whether it be an actress' weight or her unpleasing hands. After seeing Britain's venerated Dame Edith Evans play Shakespeare's Cleopatra, he wrote: "Bereft of fan, lace and sedan chair, Dame Edith is nakedly middle-aged and plain...