Word: huntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Venice's beatniks were delighted. Cried Lawrence (The Holy Barbarians) Lipton: "This is another witch hunt, another effort of the squares to put down the beats. Why, Whitman was the first beatnik-beard, sandals, the whole bit." Said Teacher Russell with tired irony: "They have probably started a greater Whitman revival than I ever could...
...situation" that now faces TV, strong leadership is needed, and "administration is not your forte." Pressed by reporters who asked if the quiz stigma was not the true reason for Cowan's departure, Stanton backed and filled, finally said: "No, sir. I'm not conducting a witch hunt...
...herself the child of an Anglo-American match and bears the title of Lady Elizabeth Kinnaird) or sheer absentmindedness, Author Eliot keeps drifting away from her subject-how a parcel of status-seeking mammas, nouveau riche papas, dutiful daughters and out-of-pocket noblemen staged the great white fortune hunt, or coronet safari, of the late 19th century...
...mind. The girl, on the other hand, endures a dreary job because she lives in hope of finding a husband. Life is bleak for each of them; he lives from meal to meal, and she trots resolutely to the dance hall each Saturday to continue her implacable man hunt. In the end, things look brighter. She exchanges a bit of hope for a crumb of knowledge; he gives knowledge for hope. There is even a suggestion that they may meet at the dance hall the following Saturday. The novel has its charm-a disconcerting quality in a New Realist book...
...N.F.L. is eying the growing national interest in the game (CBS's pro-football TV audience: some 20 million) and planning to expand to Minneapolis-St. Paul and Dallas next year. What is more, the newly formed American Football League, headed by Dallas Oilman Lamar Hunt, has high hopes of playing next year in Houston, Dallas, New York, Denver, Boston, Buffalo and Los Angeles. Says Hunt: "Unless the N.F.L. folds, there will be two professional football leagues next year...