Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became a traveling salesman through the little towns of Texas, Kansas and Indian Territory, selling photo graphic portraits and frames to fit them. He soon bossed a sales crew of his own, and bought, at the age of 20, a flashy diamond ring ("I wish I was half as smart now as I thought I was then"). He drank champagne in San Francisco, broke up a light opera performance in Butte, Mont., wore boots and spurs in hotel dining rooms, and fired his six-shooter on New Year...
...Poeta nascitur, non fit,"* say the poets who consider themselves naturals. But can one poet teach another how to write? In the current issue of Poetry, two successful teachers say: yes-sometimes...
...main trouble with The Long Watch seems to be that authors Morrie Ryskind and Harvey Haislip have not quite been able to decide into what genre they want their play to fit. There is neither continuity of style, content, nor emotional response. The dialogue and situations are ostensibly comic until the denouement, when a WAVE falls asleep on the job, causes the death of five aviators including her husband, and ultimately commits suicide. Of course it isn't really a tragedy since for some reason this convinces Washington of the necessity of long-range rescue planes...
...electronic computers. Transistors can be built, theoretically, almost as small as the neurons (nerve cells) that serve as relays in the human brain, and they react several thousand times faster. A "brain" built with transistors instead of vacuum tubes might out-calculate a regiment of Einsteins and still fit in the room where Einstein does his thinking...
Both the plot and the women of Westward the Women struck me as being ludicrous. The girls belong in a James Thurber story, not in a Western. The plot and dialogue are fit only for female monsters. I therefore recommend this motion picture to all women with amazon aspirations; the boys should stay home...