Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Sinatra is no Bogart is hardly news. What is more to the point is that neither Screen Writer Richard Breen nor Director Gordon Douglas affords him much opportunity to be Sinatra, an attractive enough role under proper auspices. Instead, he sleepwalks through the baroque entanglements of a plot involving a millionaire's daughter in hot water, some jewelry stolen and forged, and a veritable menagerie of dope addicts, lesbian strippers, crooked nightclub owners, exasperated cops and good-hearted lushes...
...seems. At casual glance, the report is organized in proper bureaucratic fashion, and is written in proper sociological jargon. War is not simply an extension of diplomacy, it says, but a society's "principal political stabilizer." It functions as a "generational stabilizer" as well, enabling "the physically deteriorating, older generation to maintain its control of the younger, destroying it if necessary." Because war supplies all these benefits, it is not to be abandoned casually. There must be a "believable life-and-death threat" as a substitute...
...Demands. To Canadian Choreographer Macdonald, 39, who came to Harkness last February after two years as artistic director of the Royal Swedish Ballet, such subject matter is thoroughly proper to dance. "Ballet today is exciting not just because of the dancers," he says, "but because it isn't afraid to leap onstage with a statement on any subject." Bearing out his thesis, Macdonald is now at work on a ballet dealing with violence and ritual killing as an ingrained social phenomenon now and in the past...
...summer of 1963, Selma, Ala., was embroiled in a voter-registration drive among Negroes. In standard response, local police made arrests on charges that ranged from vagrancy to concealing identity, from inciting to riot and truancy (for the children) to driving automobiles without proper license-plate lights...
...since Polyneices' sister Antigone went to her death trying to give him a proper burial has anyone had as much trouble getting interred as the late showman Billy Rose. For 20 months, Billy's mortal remains have lain in temporary storage while his two sisters, Polly and Miriam, fought with his executors over how much should be paid for his mausoleum, and by whom. Now the body has been entombed at last, in a $125,000 white granite shrine in a Westchester County, N.Y., cemetery. The inscription reads: "Billy Rose-the fabulous legend who is really real...