Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. This gloriously old-fashioned tale of a young man's conquest of the Amazon and his own restless nature is a welcome return to romantic adventure as a novelistic form...
Last week President Johnson played the most gracious sort of national host to Italy's visiting Premier Aldo Moro. He afforded Moro the rare privilege of attending a U.S. Cabinet meeting. He showered Moro with gifts-including a 19th century Sheraton gilt mirror, a pen stand with two gold pens, a matching Accutron desk clock, a photograph of Italy taken from U.S. satellite Tiros IX, a stained-glass cross, a blue nylon sleeping bag for a Moro daughter, and a Texas cowboy costume for Moro...
Princess Radziwill arrived in a long, lime-green silk crepe by Yves St. Laurent, edged with gold. Mrs. Kennedy's guest list had plenty of show business: Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Movie Producer Sam Spiegel and Broadway's Mike Nichols, Sybil Burton and Arlene Francis, plus Economist J. Kenneth Galbraith and Politicians Robert F. Kennedy, Pierre Salinger and Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Though The Pawnbroker is full of emotional shocks, it is seldom deeply moving. At times Lumet's style seems self-conscious and stagy, unable to distinguish brass from gold, with more clever camera work than the somber occasions warrant and too many theatrically glib vignettes. One jarring note is struck by a vicious black racketeer and brothel master (Brock Peters) who supports Nazerman's pawnshop as a front for his deals while basking in the luxury of an improbable white-on-white world adorned with white jackets, white walls, and a blond loverboy...
...anyone who can still remember the late Radio Comedian Fred Allen's dry wit, these letters will seem a disservice to Allen's ghost. To anyone who cannot, sorting through this epistolary mountain for the occasional glint of gold will seem hardly worth the effort. The nuggets are there all right; even in his casual correspondence, Fred Allen could not resist the comic muse, whether diagnosing his own health ("I find myself winded after raising my hat to a lady acquaintance") or commiserating with a toothless pal, who "has been living by sucking the butter off asparagus." Freelance...