Word: raves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack. Shirley stayed away from rehearsals for several days and then, in the best tradition of the stage, went back to work. When Tree opened, she stopped the show with a raffish number called Love Is the Reason, and was showered by the critics with a new set of rave reviews...
Thanks for a good article, [but] TIME forgot a great symbol of progress in Dixie. Remember the politicians who used to rave: "D'ye want your daughter to marry a Negro? Then vote for ole Buzz Drippo for the U.S. Senate." Where is Buzz Drippo today? He's joined the dinosaurs in the museums...
...overloaded program (morning-paper critics like to get back to their office typewriters early). Another, and the commonest source of distress to a sympathetic critic: the struggling but limited performer who has laid out a hard-earned $1,000-$1,500 for a Manhattan recital, hoping for rave reviews which will lead to contracts and a steady career. An Hour Till Midnight. Critic Berger has about an hour in which to set his opinions on paper before his midnight deadline, flows them out quickly. As a composer, Berger takes more time, usually spends several painstaking months on a quarter hour...
...House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee to its research center in Princeton, N.J. for a demonstration. From Manhattan, 45 miles away, RCA telecast a special 20-minute variety show (Dolores Gray, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, the Hit Parade dancers) in full color. At show's end, dazzled committeemen gave rave notices to RCA's system. "It's amazing!" said Committee Chairman Charles A. Wolverton...
...what is best for Rosalind Russell. Last week in Manhattan, she was again exhibiting all three as the star of Wonderful Town, the biggest hit of the Broadway season. Though she can neither sing nor dance, Ros has confidently and energetically sung & danced her way into the most enthusiastic rave reviews in recent memory. The Times's Brooks Atkinson, who declared that Rosalind "radiates the genuine comic spirit," demanded that she be elected President of the U.S. The Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr happily surrendered to her "open-armed abandon." The other critics' superlatives ranged from "terrific...