Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fashioned Thumpers. Disarray and disillusionment are also intense on the G.O.P. local level (notable exceptions: New York and California). The big contributors are refusing to kick in; Boston Republicans, who two years ago collected $1,200,000 at a pledge dinner, this year got only $75,000. Through the Midwest, Old Guard Republican organizations are busy wreaking vengeance on Eisenhower Republicans, and the Ikemen are getting no help from Washington. Many a GOPolitico is convinced that the President is no longer an asset. Said a top-ranking Colorado Republican last week: "The President will always have some popularity...
...best Revue had to offer was a split-level pair of cafe comics named Mike Nichols, 26, and Elaine May, 25, whose satiric thrusts at the telephone company's "Organization Woman" were fresh, inspired stuff. Nichols and May also did a racy, offbeat skit called "The Dawn of Love or The Moon Also Rises in an Automobile!" Scratching her ear and nervously shoving her sleeve up and down her forearm, Elaine admired the "suicidally beautiful" lake while Mike talked of other things. "Every human being has got certain natural urges, and I've got some," he began...
...Between. Taken in its huge total, the show is more revealing of the plains and valleys than the mountain peaks of U.S. art, 1958. It suffers because many of the best refused to show with the crowd, but nevertheless it displays a competent level of workmanship. Said Juror Adolpb Gottlieb: "The show does constitute a cross section of contemporary American art, divided about fifty-fifty between abstraction and realism. It's good to have a big show, especially in New York. The worst and the best are excluded. What is hanging now is in the in-between level...
...Last Husband and Other Stories), he can now place a first novel that shows how extraordinary the ordinary can be. Home from the Hill tells a story that will be largely familiar to every small-towner. What takes it well beyond village gossip and to a fairly high fictional level is Author Humphrey's knack for turning the feelings and motives of his characters this way and that, until each has taken an unshakable hold on the reader's interest...
...Upper Story is not an art gallery, a coffee house, or a bargain bookstore. Whatever esoteric appeal the gift shop had while situated on an upper story was lost when it moved to a street-level, plate-glass window site on Church Street. According to Mrs. Howe, who runs The Upper Story with her husband, "We're eight years old, actually, and I guess you might say we've grown right along with Harvard Square. We were located on the second floor in that little alleyway where the Coop bookstore is. We were the first of several second floor shops...