Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Macy's put on sale the latest samples of Ben & Joe's scientific endeavor, a combination felt hat and ballpoint pen. There was a beanie for girls (the Pen 'n Dink, 69?), a Robin Hood hat for boys (the Alpen, 59?) and even a beret-style (with better felt) for adults ($1.69). All were rakishly decorated with a long feather tipped with a ballpoint pen. Benay-Albee has stepped up production to 180,000 feather hats a week...
Ahead of the field thus far was bustling little Screenplays, Inc., which dusted off Arthur Laurents' play Home of the Brave (changing its hero from a Jew to a Negro) and put it on a sound stage under heavy secrecy with virtually unknown actors. The picture is already finished...
...Put Those Fences Back. What other factors are essential to a state of culture? With a bluntness never shown by the everyday old-Tory apologist, Eliot flatly demands a society that is divided into classes-and stays divided. Like Bernard Shaw, we may argue for a classless society in which aristocrats are replaced by "elites"; a society in which the way up is open to all, but in which we will recognize and pay and properly honor "superior individuals...
Come, Sweet Death. All this is said with such politeness that many people may put down this little book without fully realizing what a deadly kick in the teeth of western culture it is meant to be. If culture is what Eliot says it is, and can be nothing else, then it is plucking at the coverlet in Britain and virtually dead everywhere else, including the U.S. But this is exactly what Eliot's Notes says-that another Dark Ages is just around the corner...
...life in its indolence and evil has been foolishly shaping." Pelancey is gnawed by deeper fears: his clumsy conscience eats at his heart. "I'm warning you, Barty," he says, "you can't get rid of it. It's done . . . Only thing to do is to put up with it, and say nothing...