Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitterest books ever written, Candide is also one of the gayest-its razor-edged, wit-propelled story generally galloping at such speed as to make its fantastic pile-up of catastrophes almost as hilarious as they are horrifying. Converting Candide into a "comic operetta" is perforce a major operation. For the whizzing variety of incident must be duplicated by musical, visual, verbal, choreographic variety of treatment. Seldom, thanks to Scene Designer Oliver Smith and Costume Designer Irene Sharaff, has calamity been more glowingly or sumptuously caparisoned; such things as the stage set of Lisbon and the Guardi-like Venetian figures...
...formed the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra, within a year hit the bigtime of the big-band era. Then Tommy stomped off the bandstand in a tiff over tempo, truculently hired his own band, by the time (1953) he and Jimmy were playing together regularly again, had made a pile of cash ($900,000 a year at one point) and some fine jazz (Opus I, Well Git It) and swing (Song of India, Marie...
...McCall, he attempts to explain the philosophy that drives men to seek wealth and power. Argues Hero McCall: "We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call free enterprise-the profit system-but when one of our citizens shows enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit we do our best to make him feel ashamed of himself...
Literary Rock Pile. Upon joining the colony each neophyte gets a copy of From Here to Eternity and a good look at Jones's sumptuous house on the western edge of town at the end of Beech Street. The house is complete with hi-fi set, high-powered hunting rifles, 3,500 books, pushbutton kitchen and Hollywood-style bathroom (with a French-style bidet...
...expected to cut himself off from all social contact with the outside world: Lowney is adamant on "dedication." Reveille sounds for 5:30 a.m. breakfast, and then the writers are sent to their cells and typewriters. Afternoons are devoted to physical culture, exercises, or work on the "rock pile"-carting bricks or laying walks. Visitors are barred, and Lowney once heaved bricks at a trio of them. Liquor and women are also banned ("I'd kill one of my younger boys who got married") except for an occasional spree in Terre Haute. 16 miles over to the east. Lights...