Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pure roof-raising demagoguery and raking of old hatred, the Tories had nothing to match Nye Bevan. But then there were many who regarded Bevan as a liability when it came to getting the votes where Labor most needed them: among the middle class, which distrusted the upper-class overtones of Toryism but disliked the raucous dogmatism of Labor...
...liveliest in years. For it was a season that spawned gossip and started talk, that one week provided novelty and the next week made news. The play that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics' Circle Award-Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -became most famous for telling a dirty joke about an elephant, and then cut it out of the script in the name of decency...
...season's chief trend was less toward sex, however, than toward good old-fashioned theater, often with an Age of Violence twist. Unabashed in dialogue if a bit evasive in theme, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof had Williams' usual plunging force and reckless, unbraked use of it. Maxwell Anderson's harrowing The Bad Seed (about an eight-year-old murderess) wallowed in pain for pain's sake, used tragedy for matinee shudders. Though effective, it never provided-as did Joseph Hayes's The Desperate Hours-the exhilarating tingle of a good thriller. A tidy...
...stay clear of involvement in Indo-China; for photography, Los Angeles Times Staff Photographer John L. Gaunt Jr., for a picture titled "Tragedy in the Surf." Pulitzer awards in other fields: fiction, William Faulkner's A Fable; drama, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; history, Paul Horgan's Great River, The Rio Grande in North American History; biography, New York Times Washington Correspondent William S. White's The Taft Story; poetry, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens; music, Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Blceker Street...
...jackstraws. A mannequin still sat at a kitchen table in another house, but her wig had been stripped off; it was found in the remains of the refriger ator; another dummy was skewered with jagged glass. Cars were smashed as if a monster fist had crashed down on the roof; one hood had flown up and stood gaping open with a frozen look of surprise...