Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walston is properly sardonic and fast-paced. Devra Korwin, who handles the part of the standard siren played by Gwen Verdon on Broadway, is the major sex interest of the show. As a dancer, she is expert, but as a singer she is better to look at than to listen...
From there out the movie's scenes explain, without too much professional slang and yet without talking down to the cheap seats, how Jim came to see the irony of the words he once hurled in anger at his psychiatrist (Adam Williams): "Listen! If it hadn't been for [my father] standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today...
...sanctions for Israel. Knowland is urging consistent application of principles of international justice and morality to all nations alike; Dulles and Eisenhower have erected a crazy-quilt patchwork of inconsistency in foreign policy, and Knowland will lead them out of the woods if they will only stop and listen...
...people are a little happier ... A neighbor, a very old man, said last fall: 'The hand of man is against me and the face of God is turned away. Pardner, whichever way you look, it's tough.' Last week he said: 'Son, just listen to the mockingbirds...
Nobody is more surprised by their success than Patience and Prudence themselves. ("People say that our names are obviously contrived, but that's what Mamma named us.") The girls never had a singing lesson; their voices are rather shaky, and even Daddy never gave them a second listen until one day, driving back from Malibu, he decided that the crooning girls were making "a good sound." Says Patience, who does the talking for the pair: "It's all a great big accident." Says their father: "It just came out of left field. It sort of sneaked...