Word: flings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glance up at the wall and check your Playmate-of-the-Month tri-color calendar, you'll notice that it's May--reading period time. And if the Metaphysical Poets, the Peace of Westphalia, and Central Kitchen dietetics have furrowed your brow, and you feel you need a final fling at debauchery before the reckoning--try a day of escape at the Boston flicks...
Back in the U.S., he had a fling at Hollywood again (26 frustrating weeks under a writer's contract), but began to hit his stride on Hallmark with his adaptations of Cradle Song and The Lark. But Little Moon, exuberantly greeted by most U.S. TV critics last week, seemed to mark a big upturn in Costigan's career. In it he grappled compassionately with "those forces in life that make it difficult or impossible," qualified as the kind of writer once described by Pascal in a line that Costigan likes to quote: ''I most admire those...
...gangling service structure, standing like a jeweled skyscraper, nestled against the U.S. Army's Jupiter-C rocket. A homely creature it was, its streamlined shell topped with a bucketlike piece and a long, thin, cylindrical nose. This was the Explorer, the Promethean gift that the U.S. aimed to fling against the invisible doors of space...
...Taking a Fling. That job began in 1943, when newly elected Governor Tom Dewey, looking around for an able newsman to serve as his press secretary, picked Jim Hagerty. Against the wishes of his father, who knew young Jim was crossing the fence from the working press, Hagerty accepted. Says he: "I thought I'd take a fling at it." Confident young Governor Dewey's press relations were atrocious at the time, and Jim Hagerty shared with most of the Albany press a marked coolness toward his new boss. He gradually came to like and respect Dewey, although...
...Playwright Williams, who is undergoing analysis, recently said that Suddenly is "a final fling at violence...