Word: musings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London's Daily Mirror that invited young musicians to "Just Dial FAME." FAME's mortal form, it turned out, is the chunky person of Paul Lincoln, an ex-wrestler and Soho coffee-bar proprietor who runs a stable of rock-'n'-roll yodelers, is the muse behind hugely successful Singer Tommy Steele (TIME, Dec. 30, 1957). Lincoln heard tapes of Kris singing and playing folk songs he had written himself, quickly signed up the young scholar. Sample of Kris's pleasant, blues-tinged lyrics (his songs neither rock nor roll), suggested by the summers...
Vision of Carnage. Hodgson's latest poetry is filled with an old theme: fury at human cruelty to nature, to animals, to the imagination. In most of his uncompleted The Muse and the Mastiff, this theme is put in the mouth of an ancient wild bear, who seldom has a kind word for any other animal. To Hodgson, cruelty seems to be getting worse and worse in the hands of men ("I see such carnage in the future"). As for what may come to the world that he has broodingly watched from his lonely farmhouse for so many years...
...Force is quietly building two huge long-range radar stations designed to cover the Communist land mass from the Pacific to Poland and give early warning of Communist missile strikes at a range of 3,000 miles. Name of project: Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, or BMEWS (pronounced be-muse). Cost: $1 billion. The Air Force hopes to complete the Thule station this year, the Clear station in 1960, hopes to get BMEWS operational by the time the Communists are expected to begin deploying sizable intercontinental missile forces...
Redhead. Gwen Verdon, the Tenth Muse of Broadway, stops, starts and saves this musical mystery show set in a turn-of-the-century London waxworks...
Redhead. Gwen Verdon, the Tenth Muse of Broadway, stops, starts, and saves this musical mystery show set in a turn-of-the-century London waxworks...