Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spare the Rod...
...unexpected hit on its hands. Decca is now high on the charts with the soundtrack music of Around the World in 80 Days by Victor Young. Other companies have rushed into vinyl with the sound tracks of such uncertain musical bets as Mogambo, The Pride and the Passion, Hot Rod Rumble. By and large, present-day studio composers seem a trifle more sophisticated than the practitioners of "Micky Mouse" music in the '30s, when whole orchestras simply hurtled into the bass clef when a character tumbled downstairs. Columbia's The Bridge on the River Kwai, by British Composer...
...boil of dances, pageants, picnics-holding "buzz sessions," helping out with "sicking" (i.e., sick calls) and organizing "casserole brigades." There are hunting and fishing groups, a men's discussion group named The Carpenters ("they try to face real realities"), a Woman's Association, a boys' hot-rod group, "family festivals," camps for all ages, a radio program, a chatty church newspaper, ten choirs ("SING! SING! SING!" says a recruiting pamphlet). In a recent sermon, one minister ruefully quoted a newcomer as saying to another: "I guess I'll have to join that damned church...
...pregnancies, hours of agonizing births, years of self-sacrificing and rearing, they are reluctant to turn over their offspring for lessons in proper human behavior to sadistic bullies who criticize parental upbringing in an attempt to justify their own unlawful and undignified antics. I'm no softie; the rod is well worn around our house...
...confirm reports that he is going to "buy Harvard College for my boys." Rev. Buttrick will urge President Pusey to go gold hunting in South America to strengthen Harvard's financial position. Rev. Buttrick will offer to accompany the President and allow him to use his new gold-divining rod. Ex-Dean Watson will offer to find gold with his IBM machines. "Damn, but those machines are awfully smart. Awfully" he will...