Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They joked about father and Freud, about mother and masochism, about sister and sadism. They delightedly told of airline pilots' throwing out a few passengers to lighten the load, of a graduate school for dope addicts, of parents so loving that they always "got upset if anyone else made me cry." They attacked motherhood, childhood, adulthood, sainthood. And in perhaps a dozen nightclubs across the country-from Manhattan's Den to Chicago's Mr. Kelly's to San Francisco's hungry i-audiences paid stiff prices to soak it up. For the "sick" comedians, life...
...genius. By the way, Billy Graham wants to know if you can get him a deal on those Eyetalian sports cars." Appearing at San Francisco's hungry i last week (at $2,500 a week), Bruce seemed to amuse most of the customers, outraged many, and quickly got into a feud with the San Francisco Chronicle's celebrated columnist Herb Caen, who called Bruce a bore. Lenny retaliated by announcing elaborately during his act that Herb Caen "is not a transvestite, not a Commie, does not tint his hair...
Brief & Bold. Will Strunk wrote a book ("The little book," he liked to say) called The Elements of Style-43 privately printed pages that constituted his magnificent attempt to prune the jungle of English rhetoric and replant it on the head of a pin. Until White recently got hold of one of the Cornell library's two surviving copies, he had not laid eyes on the book in 38 years. Now, thanks to White, the supply has been replenished (Macmillan; $2.50) with a fond testimonial by White: "From every page there peers out at me the puckish face...
Directly hit by the strike were London's influential weeklies. The liberal New Statesman got into hot water with its labor friends by printing in Dlisseldorf, but was back in England a week later with union approval to hire a printer in Essex. The Economist, which was printed in a Swiss nunnery during a lesser strike in 1956, found a printer in Brussels, moved to Paris a week later, after Belgian unions expressed sympathy for the British strikers and threatened a boycott...
Ever since plans for the new compact cars got around Detroit, competitors of General Motors Corp. have been kicking at the rear engine G.M. will use in its Corvair. Chrysler Corp. President Lester Lum Colbert announced that Chrysler's small-car offering, the Valiant, would have its engine "up front, where it belongs." Ford Motor Co., whose small Falcon will also have a front engine, launched TV commercials demonstrating that an arrow weighted at the back end will fly erratically and miss the target, but that a "properly weighted" (i.e., heavy at the front) arrow will go straight...