Word: mister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funny you should ask me that." A silence falls around you. "Just this morning Mr. Purcell..." Not "Professor Purcell, the Nobel Prize winner." Not "Eddie Purcell." Mister Purcell...
...went to Temple University, where he was a good student, a football halfback, and a multipurpose track athlete. He got his early experience in coffeehouses in Greenwich Village, where he used to tell race jokes, but now that he is booked into the big time (Chicago's Mister Kelly's, San Francisco's hungry i, Manhattan's Village Gate), he has decided to bang or bust as a general comedian rather than as a colorful colored man. He has worked out a funny routine on karate, and he seems to have all the drive and flair...
...reverence usually reserved for a New Testament spectacle: not a chapter or verse of Robert Donovan's bestseller is omitted. This accounts for the film's nearly 21-hour running time. It does not account, however, for turning the first hour or so into a miniaturized Mister Roberts. All the old hands are on board. There is the salty Regular Navy-man who makes things tough for the fresh-water PT-boat jockeys; there are the stock-comic enlisted men with true hearts and rural accents; there is even the inevitable goldbricker who works always at being transferred...
...Solal remains his own man, and aside from Reinhardt, he is the only European who has originated a strong and personal jazz style. French critics praise him most for not imitating Americans, and, as a token of respect, his French clique calls him "Mister Solal," subtly proclaiming him the equal of the greatly admired American expatriates...
Amen to your belated recognition of baseball's Mister Most, Stan Musial [May 17]. But what mortal (even Grandpa Musial) could have played in 23 All-Star games after only 21 major-league seasons, unless he happened to be the incomparable, switch-hitting George Herman Ruth Mickey Mantle Mays Ty Cobb Gehrig...