Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Orwell's bestselling shocker Nineteen Eighty-Four, the inhabitants of his frightful dictator state are spied upon day & night by all-seeing television eyes. Great posters remind them that "Big Brother is watching...
Hesitant Cassandras. Budd Gore of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. warned: "Shows don't have to sink to the level of crime, cliff-hanging and blood & thunder to get a high rating . . . Let me remind you that parents still exist and we must think of the long-range disadvantage of alienating [them]." He was seconded by Miles Laboratories' (Alka-Seltzer) Lester Waddington, who reported that "Parents are beginning to complain that unless there is better programing soon, the babysitter problem will be with them again...
Added Evita: "And Perón never conceals his victories, because his victories consist in seeing all Argentines happy. We have the privilege in Argentina of having found what Diogenes searched for-a man!" No one in the audience saw fit to remind Evita of what Diogenes was really looking for-an honest...
Eleven days later Miss McKenney became the second Mrs. Michael Lyman- "Conway" proving to be only a penname adopted by radical Mike out of deference to his wealthy family ("A scion, eh?" whistled Sister Eileen: "Remind me to look twice at the next New Masses editor we rope in").* The happy couple settled down in Greenwich Village, where life would have been sheer heaven if only the first Mrs. Lyman, who was "tall, willowy and beautiful" and possessed "seven million dollars, strictly in government bonds," hadn't given vent to the "strong streak of dog-in-the-manger...
...East River. Many of the rewards of his long career-money, books and manuscripts-have gone to charities and public institutions. He was content with other kinds of rewards. Said Fritz Kreisler to his birthday well-wishers last week, while wife Harriet tugged at the tablecloth to remind him not to talk too long: "Accept the profound gratitude of one who will always remain your humble and faithful friend...