Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about whether the actor with the sweatshirt and the lyric lunkishness really could boast the credentials of a true beatnik. Certain habits are in his favor: he has been known to greet visitors in his underwear, date hash-house waitresses, play the bongo drums. In Beatnik Kerouac's phrase, he seems to want everything at the same time. On the other hand, he has been living in a pleasant split-level Hollywood house instead of a way-out pad in San Francisco's North Beach; he has extensive investments; he has never said a single kind word...
This kind of attitude seems very much in line with the Administration's general thinking about the role of athletics in a University. "Athletics for all" is a favorite Harvard slogan. The intramural program goes far toward making this phrase real; but intercollegiate contests present another--and at least as valuable--kind of athletic experience. The University should do all in its power to make this experience available to as wide a range of people as possible...
East-America Council of Commerce and Industry, "which on the one hand did not involve surrender to force or the threat of force, and on the other hand eliminated from .the situation features which ... to use President Eisenhower's phrase, were 'a thorn in the side of peace.' " But the U.S. intends to stop Communist aggression wherever it breaks out. "These offshore islands do not constitute the ideal defensive position," the Secretary admitted dryly, but neither does West Berlin. "Berlin is militarily indefensible. It is a small island of freedom totally surrounded by Soviet power...
...basic articles of faith in the beard-and-sandal set is that no woman alive sings jazz like Ella Fitzgerald. Ella it was who schooled a whole generation of vocalists to phrase and improvise like jazzmen; Ella, too, who popularized scatted lyrics and the word rebop. But Ella has always moved with equal ease through the palm-frond world of popular dance music, and Jazz Impresario Norman Granz set out to prove it by issuing a series of albums on his own Verve label featuring Ella in great pop hits. Latest addition to the series: Ella singing Irving Berlin...
...think Guerard justifies the whole of his interpretation here. For one thing, he is inconsistent; he speaks at one point of the "dreaming of Lord Jim"--when someone else might say "composing" and then goes on to detail the elaborate pains Conrad took over each phrase to insure total control of the material and of the reader. Guerard's combination of reverie and manipulation is difficult to accept; to be sure, Marlowe sometimes mentions--and conveys--the dreamlike quality of his tales, but we must attribute the dream to him, not to Conrad, for Guerard himself has taught...