Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also warned against authors "who attempt to use mistakes of the past in coming out against leadership of literature and art by party and state." Too many of those who denounced loyal artists of Stalinist times as "varnishers" had since "scavenged in garbage pails and passed this off as life." He was all for "freedom of creative work," Khrushchev protested, despite the "lesson of Hungary, where the counterrevolution used some of these writers for its filthy aims and reminds us to what this can lead." (Original reports of the speech quote Khrushchev as saying that the Hungarians ought to have...
When Burr Tillstrom's gentle Kukla, Fran & Ollie was chopped down from half an hour to 15 minutes six years ago, some 10 million fans proved they could be as loud as they had been loyal. The New York Times complained that "minority" viewers were being disenfranchised. The Washington Times-Herald asked: "Who's responsible for this brainstorm-someone who's mad at the human race?" The late Playwright Robert Sherwood moaned: "Calamity." Last week ABC's Kukla, Fran & Ollie, TV's second oldest network show (after Kraft TV Theater) went dark after...
...copies is off the presses. Reader's Digest has paid $100,000 for the right to run a condensation in Reader's Digest Condensed Books. The novel's movie rights have been sold for $100,000. This time, apparently, Cozzens in going to reach beyond that loyal band of fans whom Critic John Mason Brown has dubbed "the many few, more than a coterie, less than a crowd...
Bastardized. It was no use: a majority of Democrats defeated a majority of Republicans in beating down amendments seeking the restoration of foreign-aid funds. Indeed, such was the party turnabout that Pennsylvania's Daniel Flood, a Democrat who remained loyal to foreign aid, berated his fellow Democrats for deserting their own program. ''This is your baby,'' thundered Flood. "Do you make this a bastard child...
...Examples: the Shriners maintain 17 hospitals for crippled children; the Knights of Columbus donate $1,000,000 a year to charities; the Loyal Order of Moose operates a campus-style home for 800 needy offspring of deceased members...