Word: hailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really going on. The next logical question would be "Why?"-and I don't think anybody could adequately answer that. The old standby, that it's for a bigger and more secure world, doesn't sound convincing any more ... It has become somewhat of a god: Hail, all hail to Baal, Baal, the Hydrogen Bomb. Not by bread alone, and certainly not by bombs alone, do we live...
...hail to the skippers With fate beyond the skies, All hail to the skipper Of the Flying Enterprise...
...banned the sale of a Brooklyn-brand of bubble gum called Freedom's War. Reason: parents had been long dismayed by the pictures inside the wrappers of battle scenes in Korea (e.g., a news photographer getting shot while riding in a jeep, U.N. soldiers being hit by a hail of snipers' bullets). The gum, said Geneva's Y.M.C.A., was just too "bloodthirsty . . . There is enough warlike propaganda in the world without selling these exaggerated scenes to receptive children...
...pretext for dictatorship. Shaw's Caesar, if not history's, has no other course for checking the violence, the will-to-rule, the lust-to-kill of everybody-the young Cleopatra not least-he encounters. Indeed, the exultantly upraised swords and the hysterical shouts of "Hail Caesar" at the final curtain are less Caesar's moment of triumph than of defeat. The voice of reason is always drowned out, all too soon will "Ave, Caesar" become "Et tu, Brute...
Blue and red, like mingled ice and fire, rule the windows. The blue, in scores of subtle hues, admits arrows of sapphin light. The red spills a hail of rubies into the cathedral's dimness. Diamondlike borders of white dots keep the chief col ors from crowding each other. Subsidiary greens, purples and golds help create an effect richer and more various than New England's autumn foliage...