Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gather informally with his fellows. To satisfy this urge, densely packed cities have yielded up their most precious commodity-space-to create the great, timeless squares, piazze, places and Plätse. The best and most famous are the squares of Europe, handsome units of big-city living, often breathtakingly beautiful, exciting to walk through, and a breath of fresh air amidst the clutter of urban living. Against their splendid backdrops have unrolled many of the high moments of history. Through the centuries they have served as inspiration and model for the world's great architects...
...question concoctor for The $64,000 Question, takes the easygoing view that language is what its users make of it. It is usually Critic Brown who is the first to cry Fowler. Both quick-witted, the two men also strike sparks with contrasting personalities: stocky Evans, 52, often rides roughshod over the conversation with a donnish cackle and a rapid, sing-song voice that strikes some listeners like chalk drawn across a blackboard; lean, white-haired Brown, 57, a veteran lecturer and darling of women's clubs, is a courtly Kentuckian with effortless charm...
Broken Commandments. Such puns often rile some viewers into protests. But the Last Word puts up happily with Brown's observation on slurred speech ("To slur is human") or Guest Panelist S. J. Perelman's near classic, "I've got Bright's disease-and he's got mine.'' What riles the audience more is Scholar Evans' zest for breaking old grammatical commandments. Evans accepts "it is me," prefers "ain't" to the awkward "am I not," thinks it fine to occasionally split infinitives, regards prepositions as good things to end sentences...
...Fred Zinnemann. As a courageous woman preferring the truth, no matter how grim, to uncertainty, no matter how disguised, Eva Marie has her best role since her Oscar-winning role in On the Waterfront. Addict Murray conquers with restraint-a happy departure from the screaming-meemie interpretation so often accorded the junky's part. To the end, Rain is true to its unflinching credo. The odds seem to be against the emancipation of an addict with one relapse already on his record. Rain abates with only the faintest hope of sunshine, hints that the long-range forecast is more...
Hard to Stomach. In Paso Robles, Calif., Theft Suspect James Jay Johnston, 21, rushed groaning to a hospital by worried patrolmen, was discovered to have two bedsprings, a belt buckle and a spoon handle in his stomach, explained: "I often eat things like that...