Word: homegrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio's critics have complained that radio is too lazy to produce its own comedians. This summer, while such vaudeville-trained funnymen as Fred Allen and Jack Benny are on vacation, radio hopes to answer the critics with three young, homegrown comics: Henry Morgan, Abe Burrows and Dave Garroway...
Until last week, the American Communist Party had pretended to be a homegrown movement, with no roots in Moscow. President Truman, who only three months ago had denounced the Communist spy investigation as a red herring, had the word to describe U.S. Communists. Said he: "I have no comment on the statements by traitors...
...triangle situation luckily lacks the long passionate moments of hackncydom and Renunciation that inevitable turn up in homegrown productions. Instead of showing the audience that the analyst is cheating, "Mine Own Executioner" tips us off to the reasons and analyzes them...
Years later, Elsa became librarian at the Lake Junior High School in Denver, and began ordering all the books she could on U.S. folklore heroes. She also got a teacher friend of hers all steamed up about it. The teacher, Miss Julia Eriksen, had been raised on homegrown tall tales in a Colorado mining camp...
...Agnes de Mille doesn't dance often, but when she does, her mixture of classical precision and homegrown humor sets balletomanes cheering. As the nation's top choreographer, she is usually too busy doing other things. By bringing ballet to Broadway, she thinks, she has "opened the door for dancing" in the U.S. Sometimes she suspects she has opened the door too far: she has already seen too much imitation De Mille on Broadway. Says Agnes: "It's shocking...