Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Modern pressagents are effete, Variety complained not long ago, but last week the boys seemed determined to disprove the horrendous charge. During the shooting of Bing Crosby's Say One for Me, platoons of short-skirted, black-stockinged extras served champagne to the press. Linda Darnell got herself Page One hypnotized to learn a part. And Brigitte Bardot announced she is going to Moscow for the premiere of her forthcoming movie (in which she is fully clothed from first reel to last). Finally, the Motion Picture Division of U.C.L.A. invited Elizabeth Taylor to be a guest lecturer. Her subject...
That deepening problem of modern times-giant airliners swooping in on airports thick with ever-increasing traffic-sat like a brooding presence last week at the meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization at Montreal. The conference's purpose: to select a common system of worldwide air navigation...
...decided to find out." The process of discovery was oblique. Widely able, he wrote articles for Esquire on endocrinology, a daily advice-to-the-lovelorn column for the Chicago Sun Syndicate, a book in 1940 on international strategy (The Shape of the War to Come). With a conviction that modern music was "intellectualized" and "quibbling," he returned to composition with fresh regard for the romantic and heroic, turned out operas and symphonies that won him a more solid reputation behind the avantgarde...
Bangs & Kwimpers. In Pioneer, Go Home!, ex-Adman and Novelist (The Philadelphians) Richard Powell has constructed an ingratiating fable of tribal continuity in a world of paper power. The vast apparatus of modern bureaucracy can be defeated only by the semiliterate, such as the Kwimpers of Cranberry County, N.J. The Kwimpers, inbred holdouts against every progressive movement since the Revolution (they spoke Elizabethan English until the school system caught up with them), are the most disgraceful family since the Jukes and the Kallikaks went into the sociologists' black books...
...Kwimpers drive to their destiny on that modern Rosinante, the jalopy with deciduous hubcaps. They migrate to Florida and defeat it, by the simple expedient of driving to the middle of a highway that has not been officially opened and therefore does not officially exist. As successful squatters, living on fish and cunning, the Kwimpers hold off waves of governmental agents, sociologists and gangsters intent on civilizing them. Writers have loved such types, from Shakespeare's Nym, Pistol and Bardolph, who defied Elizabethan order, to Hasek's Good Soldier Schweik, whose peasant idiocy proved smarter than the Austro...