Word: ichabod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dancer Bolger is a mobile piece of American folklore. Boston-born, warm and witty, he has a sort of Ichabod Crane appeal-he is trampled on but triumphant. At 52 he is still as nimble as he was back in 1936 when Broadway gave him stardom, for his part in George Balanchine's difficult Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet, in On Your Toes. Eventually he emerged as a character comic who could also deliver a wistful lyric. By Where's Charley?, he was translating most of life into impish leaps and droll gesture. "In show business," says Bolger...
...went through college during the Coolidge boom, when the Yard was also booming with such great names as Charles Townsend Copeland, George Lyman Kittredge, Bliss Perry and Irving Babbitt. But only a handful of the 745 have become headliners (among them: Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, This Week Editor William Ichabod Nichols), and far more have made the Social Register (23%) than Who's Who in America (8%). After 25 years, the average Harvardman, '26, has become a happy, prosperous gentleman with a goodly share of virtues and some surprising vices...
...fared no better, says Psychologist Charles. There was Washington Irving's gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, "with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that [his head] looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck . . ." Tom Sawyer's bewigged schoolmaster was fussy, pedantic, strict ("his rod and his ferule were seldom idle") and frustrated ("The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster"). Wolfe's idea of a schoolmaster, also described in Look Homeward, Angel...
...Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The dull spots in this doubleheader are enlivened by some fresh Walt Disney creations; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the sound track (TIME...
...Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The dull spots in this doubleheader are enlivened by some fresh Walt Disney creations; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the sound track (TIME...