Word: ferberization
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...raining stocks and bonds outside, but the portents don't penetrate the penthouses in Dinner at Eight, Kaufman and Ferber's glittering 1932 melodrama of the Depression. The countless plots revolve around a dinner party, an exercise in social climbing rendered all the sillier when the titled English guests of honor pop off to Florida hours before the soiree. While the featherbrained, steel-hearted hostess is lamenting lost social lions and lopsided lobster aspic, she fails to see that her daughter's impending marriage is on the shoals and that her husband's shipping business, the source...
...occupied territories came even to this remote spot. As 15 or so Palestinian youths manned a rock barricade across the road leading to Kafr Qaddum, a familiar blue Volkswagen van braked to a halt. Inside were two well-known settlers from Kedumim, Shimon Kav, 41, and Yosef Ferber, 48. The Arab youths say they told the driver to go away. The settlers say they were pelted with stones, and in self-defense Kav sprayed bullets from an Uzi submachine gun. Abdul Basset Mahmoud Abdullah, 27, was killed instantly, and a second Arab was wounded...
Appleton, Wis., is a midsize city in the heart of Middle America, as homespun and unpretentious as bread pudding or apple pie. Like other such cities, it has collected some singular claims to fame. Appleton, residents like to note, is the home of Lawrence University. It nurtured Novelist Edna Ferber and Senator Joe McCarthy. It also boasts the first house in the nation to light up with hydroelectric power. But what an outsider finds chiefly remarkable about Appleton is the ordinariness that spreads over the place like the warm October sunshine...
That work is attracting a new and concentrated attention. The last time a constellation of equal prominence appeared was in the Great Depression era, when talents as varied as Pulitzer-Prizewinning Novelist Edna Ferber, Poet Marianne Moore and Experimentalist Gertrude Stein were among the decade's most prominent literary celebrities. But they worked in an era less obsessed by the politics of gender. Today, says Simon & Schuster Editor in Chief Michael Korda, "women writers are being noticed more because more attention is being paid to women as a group...
...nude children and to other works that are pornographic only in isolated segments. "Yet we seriously doubt," he argued, that more than "a tiny fraction" of worthwhile materials would be involved. Not everyone shared the court's optimism on that score. Said Herald Price Fahringer, who represented Ferber: "This decision could inspire more censorship, and I find that alarming...