Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Let us pray that the American in the street puts his prejudices in the closet for a few days and treats Mr. Khrushchev as an honored guest. Mr. Nixon seems to have been treated very well during his visit. Let's repay with our best manners...
...separate corporations, discovered outstanding debts of $126 million. What Hearst was after was possessions, power and journalistic influence. His successors, a 13-man board of trustees headed by hard-eyed Richard E. Berlin, 65, a onetime Hearst ad salesman, prefer, where possible, to take a profit and let the influence...
Epstein reacted to criticism like a maddened elephant, but never let the struggle affect his art. "The man in the street," he would say, thrusting out his low er lip like a rain spout, "is a fool. And I care not a whit for his opinions." Asked his opinion of other sculptors, the big man in the long-billed baseball cap would per mit himself a little twist . of a smile : "When I want to see a great sculptor, I have to look in the mirror." Critics and collectors often agreed with Epstein's self-appraisal, kept him comfort...
...Then, as the king wandered mad through the storm, deserted by his daughters, the performance departed the norm again. Laughton's king was strangely calm and compelling. Rarely was he moved to the familiar, passion-torn shrieks of other Lears. His fantastic monologues with himself sounded almost conversational: "Let the great Gods, that keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch...
...jazzmen are convinced that the Russians will some day break out and really start bopping. Says Ruff: "The spirit is there, and I'm sure that once they feel free to really let go, they'll start adding their own bars. They're starved for something...