Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rene Tillich's short story "Point of View" and Ralph Hickock's poem "Song" are the two best pieces in the first issue of Voices. James Hill and Eleanor Kester both contribute some good poetry, although the bank-clerk-and-pin-collar ghost of T.S. Eliot appears to haunt Hill and most of the Voices poets...
Alfred, an assistant professor of English, read the prologue and first act of his unpublished verse play, Hogan's Ghost...
...struggle out of bed before 5 p.m.-there are the long, white beaches, but they are about five miles away. Nobody bothers much to swim or waterski; the beaches are for lolling, in or half out of bikinis. During the day, St. Trop is for the most part a ghost town, much as it was before it was "discovered." At night it blazes into life...
...strong radio competition; it fills the sunny hours unimaginatively with soap opera and such housewife pacifiers as Arthur Godfrey and Art Linkletter. At ABC, which dropped untold thousands in network radio last year, gloom is officially repressed. But one network bigwig groaned last week: "Network radio is just a ghost. They're doing horseradish. All we're doing is keeping the lines...
...with the gingham dress-when they are kidnaped by The Bad Guy (Richard Widmark)-he's the one with the occupational sneer-who forces them to lead him to The Buried Treasure. First they cross The Bad Lands, then they encounter The Bluecoats, later they come to The Ghost Town, finally they are attacked by The Indians-a tribe of cosmetic Comanches who bite the dust as delicately as though it were crepes suzette. At the climax, The Good Guy and The Bad Guy shoot it out to supply the answer to the second most important question the picture...