Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oscar Schnake, one of the founders of the Chilean Socialist Party. From a red-hot Socialist campaigner against "Yanqui imperialism" he developed into a strong Pan American when he returned last winter from a visit to Washington as Minister of National Development...
Crown Prince Olav of Norway Clippered from Lisbon to New York under the pseudonym "Oscar Dahl" to spend Christmas with Crown Princess Martha and their three children in Washington...
Intellectual America: Ideas on the March-Oscar Cargill...
Sunny River (book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; music by Sigmund Romberg; produced by Max Gordon) attempts to revive big-scale, full-throated operetta without knowing how. It seizes on the cobwebs of the oldtime musical instead of the charm. Its lush, long-winded plot, its stilted dialogue, its leering humor have everybody's nostalgia in full retreat before the evening is half over. A tale of New Orleans around 1810, Sunny River tells of the rivalry between a cafe singer (Muriel Angelus) and a society belle (Helen Claire) for a dashing young Creole lawyer (Bob Laurence), runs...
...Poems: 1940 (Yardstick Press; $2.50) is selected by Oscar Williams with his eyes glued on his belief that "The poet is a man without a profit or any other kind of ulterior motive. He is free to tell the truth as he sees it, whether it is disaster or the resurrection." In practice this seems to make Editor Williams feel that unless a poem tells its readers something disastrous or resurrectional it is not a poem. His anthology contains much overwrought poetic material that could all suitably be grouped under Contributor John Berryman's observation: "Whippoorwill calling, excrement falling...