Word: hornings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must put in my two cents' worth of protest. The gentleman quoted, Dean Fitch, may have gone to Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, but he went to it with a pair of tin ears and came out of it with a tin horn to blow. Cat is the most highly, intensely moral work that I have produced, and that is what gives it power. It is an outcry of fury, from start to finish, against those falsities in life that provide a good fertilizer for corruption. What it says, in essence, through the character of Big Daddy...
...three winds forward from the brute's purchase of the heroine from her mother for a few thousand lire. With his frightened purchase he takes to the road on a tumble-down trailer built onto a motorcycle, and is soon teaching the girl a few simple tricks--blowing a horn or dancing a few steps--with which to decorate his act. Despite frequent cuffs and constant glowering from her master, the half-wit begins to enjoy her simple performances at rural festivals...
Under the aegis of "prosperity," the Republican party sits complacently promising four more years of the same. The GOP proudly points to neatly balanced columns of figures and shinier cars and silver-plated doorknobs, and defies denial that the horn of plenty is overflowing. Although the Republican boast seems at first justified, when the figures are inspected and the plating is scraped away there remains a clouded picture of deception, illusion, and statistical manipulation...
...Somerville, N.J. pianist-arranger, he started playing the piano at four. When his father died three years later, Don made up his mind to "sort of carry on what my father had done." At eight he was taking accordion lessons, at 13 he was studying the big baritone horn to play in his high-school band. He picked up the trumpet without help, and the mellophone was no trouble at all after that, since it has the same fingering and a similar embouchure. One day he met a fellow who had two vibraphones and wanted a trumpet; it happened that...
...Vanderbilt, 32, wan, wistful heiress (to $4,500,000), mother of two (by Maestro Leopold Stokowski), summer-stock actress, painter and poetess, whose 1955 volume, Love Poems, was dedicated "For S and the Search"; and the book's presumed dedicatee, Sidney Lumet, 32, tenement-raised onetime Broadway actor, horn-rimmed director of TV (You Are There), cinema (Twelve Angry Men) and stage (The Doctor's Dilemma); she for the third time, he for the second (his first: Cinemactress Rita Gam); in Manhattan...