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...Playwright Williams wrote it, Summer and Smoke was a young man's passionate, naive discussion of spirit and sex. In this scenario, the tension of these opposites is unwisely relaxed. The heroine, made less prim and more appealing, seems almost entirely in the right-all she wants, after all, is an emotional relation before she begins a physical one, and what sensible adult could possibly fault her for that?-while the hero seems almost entirely in the wrong...
...seemed so jittery. Suety Georgy Malenkov nervously eyed dour old Vyacheslav Molotov, his longtime rival for Stalin's favor and now his partner, along with Lavrenty Beria, in the triumvirate chosen to run Russia. Even bouncy Nikita Khrushchev was unwontedly subdued. Only prim, beady-eyed Beria, Russia's top cop, seemed unconcerned. Of all the men in the conference room and an adjoining office, only Beria was ignorant of the meeting's real purpose...
Counterpoint & Cowpunching. Tall and blond, Hallyday comes on stage in a prim dark blue suit, picks at a pink guitar, swings his jelly hips, pokes his microphone suggestively at girls in the audience, and shouts: "Je cherche une fille...
...disgust at his own errors, swore loudly as he fell after being faked out of position. The stern arbiters of the U.S.L.T.A. seemed unimpressed by Ralston's impeccable behavior at Longwood against the same Mexican team that beat him and McKinley at Cleveland. Nor were the prim chaperons of U.S. tennis moved by other reports that the Cleveland incident had been exaggerated. "Ralston's conduct on the court certainly is not angelic." said Olen Parks, who umpired the Cleveland match. "I do not approve of his attitude at all. But far too much is being made of this...
...about Oxford in bright red slacks and beret while smoking cigars. In 1951 she proposed that the chair actually be occupied by a poet. Her candidate: Poet C. Day Lewis. At once, her archrival, tweedy Helen Gardner, Fellow of St. Hilda's College, now famed as an oddly prim defender of Lady Chatterley's Lover, entered Novelist (The Screwtape Letters) C. S. Lewis. In the ensuing battle of Lewis v. Lewis, Starkie's man won the five-year post (which pays $840 a year), and in 1956 she was successful in putting across Poet W. H. Auden...