Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration's achievements of the week was to kick Mississippi's ranting John Rankin off the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Administration leaders ruled him off because he was going to be chairman of another committee (Veterans' Affairs)-a technicality specially thought up to get rid of him. Rankin was not surprised. Fortnight ago he grumbled: "The word seems to have come down from Moscow to keep me off." On another technicality (that all committee members be lawyers), Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert, a fellow Dixiecrat of Rankin's, was also unseated. With...
Walter Murch is a man who loves to work at night, painting floodlit still lifes in a shadowy studio. "Sometimes I'll knock off to raid the icebox," he says, "but when I'm working I'm liable to forget the time altogether. Between the emotional kick and the visual kick, I feel suspended...
...himself to blame. As Navy Secretary he shared the Navy's mortal fear of unification, joined the admirals in insisting on restriction of the Defense Secretary's authority. After 17 months as Defense Secretary, Jim Forrestal saw it all in a clearer light. He asked Congress to kick out the word "general" and let him really...
...That's about the ticket,' said the inspector. 'We treat our own people the same way, so you, as a foreigner, can't kick. Al, help him to load up the plane and hook on a train of gliders...
What really makes a topnotch musical of Kiss Me, Kate is Cole Porter's score. If no one of its tunes equals Begin the Beguine or Get a Kick Out of You, all 17 of them have their good points, and together form a sort of triumphal procession. They range from the slow torching of So in Love Am I to the fast jive of Too Darn Hot, from the musical brio of We Open in Venice to the verbal lift of Always True to You (In My Fashion). And again & again melody and mockery go hand in hand...