Word: revellings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dozens of bylined articles were donated to the cause by literate or semiliterate types from all the stages of show business. Determined readers could dip into an essay on sin in the cinema by a translator of foreign subtitles named Herman Weinberg ("Surely, it is not sophistication to revel in bosoms and behinds"). They could sample Playwright William Saroyan at his most incomprehensible ("Squawking is futile unless it's something else at the same time, such as art, which is also futile unless it is something else at the same time, such as willing"). But for all its words...
Died. Harry Revel, 52, bachelor composer of popular love songs (Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?), who also wrote scores for Broadway (Ziegfeld Follies of 1931) and Hollywood, often teamed with Lyricist Mack Gordon; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...hammered together the Standard Oil Trust and amassed a billion dollars along the way. Grandfather Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, at the time senior Senator from Rhode Island, ruled the Senate and bellowed at the White House. The young Rockefellers, obviously, had wealth, power and prestige. But they were allowed to revel in none of the three. Instead, they learned their gentle father's code: "Every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation, every possession a duty...
Today Milan and Rome between them boast eight supermarkets. Biggest operators: the Italian-owned Supermercato S.p.A., and the fast-growing Supermarkets Italiani (majority owner: Nelson Rockefeller's International Basic Economy Co.). Up to 10,000 customers a day in the two cities revel in the choice of up to 1,800 separate items ranging from insecticide to canned swallow's nests, from canned Malayan pineapples to frozen pizzas and spaghetti in plastic bags. Increasingly, middle-class housewives leave their maids at home (thus ending the maids' expected rake-off on the week's shopping money), personally...
Never have I seen anything so gruesome. If this is a manifestation of that "inevitable force"-Arab nationalism-then Arab nationalism poses as great a threat to the civilized world as Communism, since both appear to revel in savagery and slaughter...