Word: loree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Elliot Ettelson Cohen. 60, editor of the monthly Commentary since its founding in 1945; by suffocation (a plastic bag over his head); in Manhattan. Though he addressed his magazine to a Jewish audience and filled it with Jewish lore and scholarship, Cohen included political and cultural articles of such vitality and penetration that he won a broad, loyal readership...
...brooding about how to fill Berle's summer air time. Assured of employment until October at a fat U.S. TV salary. Entertainer King might even be able to cash in on the craze for westerns. His two-year-old daughter, as a result of his interest in Indian lore, is named Cheyenne...
...language in the production did not bother me at all. I was prosaic enough to take the "Did the earth move?" dialogue as gypsy lore. Let's just assume that your critic has neither been a gypsy nor ever made love on a mountainside. I've never been a gypsy either, but I have made love on a mountainside. Could this have helped...
...merely sentimental, if its milieu were not so sharply observed, its speech so flavorful, and its infectious sense of fun so caustic. Much of the laughter wells up around Beneatha, a girl of earnest intellectual fads. When a Nigerian boy friend introduces her to a bit of African lore, she promptly decks herself out as "the queen of the Nile," and whirls across the room to click off a jazz program ("Enough of this assimilationist junk...
...always difficult to prove the need for another undergraduate course of instruction. As the Edsel recently proved, the product often creates the market, not the reverse. Nevertheless, many English concentrators and others in literature courses often find themselves lacking sufficient background in Biblical and classical lore to appreciate many illusions and mythical themes in the works at hand. For students who are foggy on the Song of Solomon or the Odyssey, an introduction to these basic poetic works in English translation might be a valuable preface to Spenser, Milton, and Joyce...