Word: rare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michigan's bow-tied Governor G. Mennen Williams, running for a sixth term, revealed that his pretty campaign helpmate, wife Nancy, was bedded with a rare disease, "infectious polyneuritis," which results in severe pain and extreme difficulty in walking...
...Buttermilk Sky, Hoagy Carmichael (Kapp LP). Even in his rare lyric moments, Singer-Composer Carmichael sounds like a man warbling in a tin shed. In this selection of his songs, mostly from the '40s and '50s, his virtues are manic enthusiasm, an antic rhythmic sense and an endlessly absorbing hobnail accent: "You cain if you tray-a-y/ . . . Ole buttermilk...
...Wald sold a story to Modern Screen magazine, was brought West to Warner Brothers to turn it into a movie. From Warner he bounced on to RKO, next tried Columbia, then Fox. Over the years, Producer Wald, 46, has built up a reputation for idiosyncrasies, something that is increasingly rare in the new Hollywood. Examples: he never lets female stars wear hats ("dangerously distracting") or slacks ("Take a love scene where you got two pairs of pants; I want to know who is doing what to whom...
...article--rightly, I think--sees no serious danger of what it calls "interference from above." However, it does cite a few rare "instances," the first of these involving the Theater Workshop's projected Hamlet of 1947. And Mr. Titcomb continues: "Under pressure from Professor Levin, who predicted it would be 'an artistic and financial failure,' the group gave up the project (Levin was more recently proven wrong on the first point but right on the second...
Finally, the book has two general merits which are worth special mention, especially since it is difficult to cite most the merits of a book of this kind except with an empty summary. Guerard writes well; this is a rare quality in a book of detailed criticism, and I hope it sets an example that will be widely followed. Second, he is occasionally willing to summarize; this is an even rare and more useful quality, since it requires more courage than the average academician can muster...