Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...museum place, and about at topical. After the plays have left Broadway and the reviews safely consigned to the morgue, the drama critic would be better off writing an organized criticism of the American theatre, instead of arranging critical tombstones between cloth-bound covers. Eric Bentley, however, has seen fit to publish approximately fifty reviews, apparently in the hope that they will have both literary value and significance for American drama...
...York Times, which has no trouble printing "All the News That's Fit to Print," had considerable trouble last week deciding what nudes are fit to print. When the producers of the Broadway comedy, Reclining Figure, tried to place an ad in the Times illustrated with a line drawing of a reclining nude, a staffer in the ad department said no. Other New York dailies ran the ad as submitted, but in the Times the nude was decorously fitted with a brassiere. At week's end, after taking the matter "under review," the Times allowed...
...that this might not be the crisp nonsense he expects. Then the curtain goes up and it is clear that Mr. Coward and Mr. Lunt are equally dubious about this Diensen fellow. Diensen, it turns out, is a Minnesota railroad baron who, by the author's admission, doesn't fit into the life of either Boston or Belgrave Square. Diensen doesn't seem at home on the stage of the Colonial either...
...sportswriters found it all terribly embarrassing. "The Russians," said Desmond Hackett of the Daily Express, "are not easily amused. But before battered Arsenal had crawled out of the floodlit stadium tonight, 75,000 Russians were laughing like kids at a pantomime . . . The crowd were tossing peaked caps and laughing fit to bust...
Arnold Toynbee calls himself a Christian. His works are drenched with Christian symbolism, terminology and theology. He often seems to speak with deep Christian fervor. Yet his beliefs fit into no Christian orthodoxy. He is not a Christian in any strict sense of the word...