Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yellow jog came creeping down The bridges, till the houses' walls Seemed changed to shadows, and St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town. -Oscar Wilde...
Show Boat (music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; book adapted by Mr. Hammerstein from Edna Ferber's novel) is still one of the most satisfying of all musicals. Few shows can boast a more delightful score. Instead of seeming dated after 18 years, Show Boat is merely very nostalgic: it brings back the '203 through the ear and the '903 through...
Among poetry anthologies were: War Poets (edited by Oscar Williams); War and the Poet, a far more comprehensive anthology edited by Richard Eberhart and Selden Rodman. It included war poetry from all over the world and from 1800 B.C. to the present...
Calmly confident, Army's cadets bet that their wonder team would collect a touchdown in four plays. Said Navy's grim Coach Oscar Hagberg: "Army can't call its shots against us. We're not that bad." To find out, President Truman and 102,000 other fans last week jammed Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium...
...revival of the old play, Lady Windermere's Fan, by Oscar Wilde. It had one lovely old joke. 'There's nothing in the world like the devotion of married women, but of course that's something a married man knows nothing about...