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Yale is Gothic and glib. Princeton is smaller and in the country. Both of them have football weekends...
Elvis Presley, the 21-year-old bobby-soxers' delight, shot the Ed Sullivan Show's rating up to 43.7-highest in two years. Actor Charles Laughton, his glib tongue in his dumpling cheek, introduced Elvis with: "Ed insisted I give a high tone to the proceedings," then, to the frenzied shrieks of the teenagers, let Hillbilly Presley take over. Crooner Presley, sideburns dripping with sweat and goose grease, mumbled through three songs, gave his guitar a thorough clouting, contorted his mouth suggestively and his pelvis more so. When it was over, parents and critics, as usual...
...Orchestra Commissioning Series). A one-act opera, written and composed by a master orchestrator with a surrealist imagination. The plot is wispish and dreamlike, designed to prove that love is eternal. The music is tuneful, often witty and sometimes engrossing, although it shows signs of its creator's glib...
Tory second-guessers were quick with explanations: poor local organization, the natural apathy of Conservative voters when their party is securely in power, a purely parochial resentment against national headquarters for bypassing a favorite son in favor of an outsider. But underlying all such glib alibis lay the gloomier suspicion that the Tonbridge vote reflects a growing dissatisfaction with the Tories among Britain's hard-pressed middle classes, who are feeling the pinch of inflation...
According to Furnas, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the pious New England zealot was "small personally as well as physically, glib, lazy-minded, a common denominator of millions of the brains and consciences of her time." The key "crimes" of which he accuses her are 1) knowing little or nothing of the South and of how slavery operated, 2) promoting racial stereotypes, e.g., Topsy, the comical waif, faithful, cheek-turning Tom, 3) talking genetic nonsense about the "African race," 4) implying that a Negro's taste for freedom and education grow proportionately to his infusions of "white blood." With...