Word: revel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most ambitious space-voyage. Uranium 235 is not on the market, of course (or likely to be soon). Neither does anyone know how to harness it as a propellant. But such trifling obstacles do not discourage the space-voyagers. Their energy problem "solved" at last, they can henceforth revel in larger dreams...
...With It? (book by Sam Perrin & George Balzer; music & lyrics by Harry Revel & Arnold B. Horwitt) boasts some pleasant tunes, picture-pretty Joan Roberts from Oklahoma!, and enough young enthusiasm to keep it running for some time. The plot revolves around a meticulous young insurance actuary (Johnny Downs) who joins a traveling carnival. This combination should inspire some flights of insurance-company satire or some gay carnival horseplay; but neither keeps the show off the ground for very long...
Meanwhile, the general public, unabashed, continues to read Alice by the millions. Distinguished mathematicians revel in the "logic" of its nonsense; psychologists acclaim it as a brilliant Freudian freak; politicians, editors and divines habitually use it to score points against their opponents; earnest translators bend to the task of rendering it into foreign nonsense...
...plot such as this gives Orson Welles much opportunity to present emotion on the screen, to revel in lights and shadows. He does so unrelentingly. The result is that the characters and the situations are never quite believable because of over-dramatization. Like a child with a new toy, Orson Welles uses the new technical discoveries beyond the point of satiation. He has not yet realized that many things are best said simply...
...Revel Syndicate, a literary agency, he received manuscripts (at a "marketing fee" of $4 to $7), praised them, shelved them for 30 days. As one of four presses (the Minerva, the Prometheus, the Pegasus, the Psychology), he then described himself as nibbling; and shelved the manuscript for another 30 days. At that point the house of Fortuny was foaming to print and sell the book, if only the author would come across with "part of" the manufacturing costs. The Fortuny contract promised the author 20% royalties on the first 3,000 copies sold, 50% thereafter. For some, there were extras...