Word: rutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literary world of 1934. A generation wearied of polite fiction was offered great gobs of something called Life. Just as history seemed to be jostling Europe to a new war, the author of Tropic offered to abolish history. The book displayed life as a perpetual riot of gabble and rut in which Narrator Miller kept a bouncer's hard eye for anyone likely to break up the party. Its explosion was timely, but the shock wave passed quickly. Now Miller seems as drably dated as one of his favorite writers, H. Rider (She) Haggard, another man who "wrote...
...walks with long steps, and his shoes are half eaten off by manure acids. After dinner he stretches out on the parlor floor and remarks in a corny fashion: "let my eats settle." Is this the true picture of F.F.A.'s Star Farmer? Or is it a rut writers often fall into when describing farm people? You can't have a farm radio program without having hillbilly music; maybe the same has to be in farm articles...
...survivor that continues to race along in a well-worn rut is Dragnet (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). Jack Webb's face is still stony, his voice still flat and he still says, "My name's Friday. I'm a cop." Last week he was after a confidence man (and caught him, of course, within the prescribed 26^ minutes). The story, like all Dragnet stories, was authentic. It proved that authenticity is something that a discriminating storyteller can overwork...
...defiance of gravity, most successful TV shows have a way of going in two directions at once-up and down. They push themselves up in popularity by dishing out the kind of entertainment the customers have been led to expect, and then dig themselves into a rut by shoveling out scheduled helpings of the predictable. Sooner or later the customers get the idea, and suddenly a very popular TV show starts going in one direction only. "What we need," say the TV brass-hats, "is something different-but not too different." Last week they offered viewers something tried, something true...
...limit the consecutive service of Senators and Representatives to twelve years. Explained Curtis, who is now in his third term: "There are very few Congressmen who come down to Washington with the thought in mind beyond serving a few terms . . . They simply get caught in a fascinating rut...