Word: fearlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Town, he needs $225,000 to start with, has to pay out more than $44,000 a week and charge a $7.20 top. If he is lucky enough to have such a rare hit as Wonderful Town, he can net more than $5,000 a week. But even though fearless angels are easy to find (178 contributed $300,000 to the forthcoming Shirley Booth musical, By the Beautiful Sea), the risks are still great. This week there are fresh signs of a challenging movement that may yet check Broadway's stranglehold on its box office...
Cartoonist Al Capp, creator of "Li'l Abner" and "Fearless Fosdick," heads the list of definite entertainment. Other performers will include Tom Lehrer '47, the Wellesley Widows, the Mahogany Hall All-Stars with Vic Dickinson, and three student acts...
Your article on the Milwaukee Journal boils down to this: 1) it is a rich paper and can afford to offend anyone, thus it is not fearless; 2) it is successful because it has no competition; 3) it fights McCarthy who fights Communism, but could not defeat McCarthy or Ike. We buy it because it prints Pogo...
...faith in the doctor's example when he finds that there is no way to save people from dying. So he teams up for a while with a stouthearted nun and works mightily, washing and laying out corpses. But this, too, fails him when he realizes that the fearless nun does not really care whether people stay alive; she only wants them to look "clean and decent" at the Resurrection. "He's tricked us!" she shouts furiously when one of the "corpses" sits up. "He's alive, and I washed his backside...
Consider the lamp-post, gentlemen. Is it the brave, fearless last representative of a style of architecture that once was, standing in front of that horrid edifice, beaming its disrespect at it like a staunch puppydog eyeing a newfangled fire-hydrant? No, it is not. It is a ruse, a front, a deception placed there by the administration to lead us away from the realization of the thunderous truth: that modern architecture, the creeping cancer of our industrial technology, has in fact captured a corner of the Harvard Yard, the nucleus of New World intellect, world shrine of ivied Victorian...