Word: flings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Republican big-weights had jockeyed themselves into position. At Fresno's amateur Democratic fling, there were few amateurs. The years had been a bitter education. Red-eyed, knowledgeable, and disillusioned, they nominated Pat Brown for governor--against William Knowland; and Congressman Clair Engle for senator--against "Goodie" Knight. They passed up Petter Odeguard (a Berkeley political science professor) and Richard Richards, and endorsed a ticket of warmed-over conservative vegetables to serve to the public in November...
...after this fling Who could blame Mr. Bing If he shipped Madam Callas to Dallas...
...complex a world, no one voice, or even a chorus of voices, would be enough. Rather than take on any untried creative artists, the young prefer to read what the New Critics have to say about the artists of yesterday. Mailer and Jones have had their brief fling, such as it was. Colin Wilson never achieved any vogue at all. There is no cult of the "beat generation," and the San Francisco literary renaissance has scarcely begun to penetrate the ivy. "Maybe," wrote Princeton's Carlos Baker recently, "this is the Age of Consolidation . . . [Students] are too busy reading...
...Galindez and Murphy are forgotten, the strongman's state has little chance of rivaling traditional Caribbean vacation lands. The few tourists who do visit it return to report a polite but lifeless people, depressingly adept at following the rules of appeasing egomania, but no fit company for a fling...
...this time cast as a lass-grabbing U.S. tycoon just Gary's age (56). He perfunctorily amasses millions while concentrating chiefly on his globe-girdling conquests; he only counts his assignations, and his corporations take care of themselves. While working on a big deal during his annual Paris fling, Casanova Cooper is rudely interrupted by mysterious, wide-eyed Ariane (Audrey Hepburn). His big deal's husband, warns Audrey, lurks with a loaded revolver just outside Cooper's Ritz suite. Thus saved from a drilling, grateful Gary turns his wolfish attentions to Audrey...