Word: froth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HALF A SIXPENCE and one Tommy Steele stir up a light froth of song and dance...
HALF A SIXPENCE and one Tommy Steele stir up a light, bright froth of song and dance...
...recent years, however, year-round reading habits have changed. "People don't read many light books any more," says a Beverly Hills bookdealer. "These are not light times." Seasonal froth still abounds, but more vacationers nowadays tend to ballast their bags with classics or important current books. Main reason for the shift is that the heightened pressures of business, community and social life leave less and less opportunity for serious reading during the workaday year. Reading has become a game of guilt. Wrote Walter Kerr in The Decline of Pleasure: "We are all of us compelled to read...
...there is a feeling of doom about the play--a current that moves below the froth of conversation. The mockery of the whores, the very emptiness of Robespierre's rhetoric, make Buechner's point: that man has no free will, that the dreary sameness of life must over-take the most heroic and the most corrupt. Reading the play, I felt this undertow. At the Loeb, I didn...
...RATHER BE RICH. Another romantic mixup, another wayward heiress-but the familiar ingredients are whipped into a nice froth by Sandra Dee, Robert Goulet, Andy Williams, Hermione Gingold...