Word: leacock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stephen Leacock who once remarked that whenever a beauty contest winner was announced he could think of at least five girls on his block who looked better. This, unhappily, is even more often the case with art juries and the prizes they give. Why prizes need be selected at all, save for reasons of incentive, is a much argued question which rarely gets answered. Yet, this jury did well. First prize went to Jose Buscaglia for his sculpture ". . . of an Inspiration." Sculptors too often suffer the fate of going unnoticed in an exhibition of paintings, as if their contribution...
Modified Wellesley. Songstress Lea (from Leacock) is bedeviled by the fact that her singing reminds people of Lovelorn Jazz Singer Lee Wiley-a matter of pleasure to others and pride to herself, but bothersome nonetheless. She stands quietly before her audience, looking sweet-faced as the college girl she recently was, smiling a slow, shy smile. Her singing voice is satisfyingly low, delightfully sandy, bewitchingly intimate, and her vocal style is almost like speaking, conveying a rare sense of lucidity and conviction. She sings many-too many-unfamiliar numbers, e.g., You Irritate Me So, This Is Where Love Walked...
Newman's commentaries deftly introduce such diverse figures as Physicists Galileo and Newton, Economists Keynes and Malthus, Mathematicians von Neumann and Russell, Humorists Carroll (who also taught geometry) and Leacock. The subject matter is equally varied, includes Daniel Bernoulli's kinetic theory of gases, Clement Durell's discussion of Einstein's theory of relativity ("It is against common sense," says Newman of the theory, "but so at first were the ideas of vaccination and of men living upside down in the Antipodes"), a mathematical assessment of military strength by Frederick Lanchester (Newman notes that abstract theories...
...beyond. Then he turned around and headed for Edmonton again, but once more he rushed through the town and ultimately arrived safely in London, where his travels had begun. The person who went off in all directions was Lord Ronald, a character in Gertrude and the Governess, from Stephen Leacock's (1869-1944) Nonsense Novels. Lord Ronald "flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions...
...Little Kidnappers. Two small boys on a farm in Nova Scotia: one of the best pictures ever made about childhood; with Duncan Macrae, Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter; directed by Philip Leacock (TIME, Sept...