Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that's the only way he can tell people about themselves. His The Possum That Didn't and The Bear That Wasn't may be remembered as two of the freshest books of drawings to appear on the absurd ideas of people and animals. His latest, The World That Isn't, is just as clever, it not as original...
...rest of the story, how man discovered the atom bomb and began to think and then DID something about it, is as delightful as it is simple. Tashlin has taken an old idea and given it his own special poke, which makes The World That Isn't laughable, believable, and desirable...
...mood of the conferences was businesslike but relaxed, often livened by dry Churchillian wit. At one point, Churchill's old military adviser, Lord Ismay, trying to break the Anglo-American deadlock over a new standardized rifle, suggested: "Isn't there some bastard Anglo-American type of fitting that could be adapted?" Churchill twinkled: "Oh, Lord Ismay, I must ask you to guard your language. I am an Anglo-American type, you know...
...listeners may have felt cheated because Marlene was limited to a few choruses of La Vie en Rose and four bars of a song in German. "It's a hell of a job to do a dramatic show in half an hour," she explains with a shrug. "There isn't time for singing because you have to worry about character and plot...
...This isn't the kind of singing I want to do," he explained. "I can go out onstage and crush them every time-they'd stand on their hands for me. But I don't like being sensational that way. If I could sing the way I like to sing-naturally-I'd be a better entertainer. It'll take from six months to a year to get the right arrangements and the righ songs, but that's what I'm going...