Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peep Show. To Ethel Barrymore, first lady of the U.S. theater, the '20s were ugly-"Ugly fashions, ugly manners, ugly dances like the Charleston, and ugliest of all ... the self-pity of the young intellectuals, 'the Lost Generation.' " But she was spared, she said. She was too busy to really notice. Most of her shows were hits -Déclassée, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The Constant Wife, The Kingdom of God. After 14 years, her marriage to Russell G. Colt of the firearms family had ended in divorce, and she was devoting herself...
...always had Saturday matinees and couldn't get to games"). And she kept up her reading; her home bulged with books. Friends came to call-veterans of the old days on the road and admirers from the new Hollywood-and no one ever heard a word of self-pity. One evening last week she woke for a moment from a short nap, grasped her nurse's hand and asked: "Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy." Then, at 79, Ethel Barrymore died...
Creativity, one of man's highest qualities, is one of the least understood. It is not sheer volume of work or novelty of expression; it is not always virtuous. Creativity is what Feodor Dostoevsky had: a tremendous capacity for sustained, self-motivated work-despite an untidy outer life that included epilepsy, compulsive gambling and enough hardships to stun Job. But few teachers can recognize creativity in children or tolerate it when they do. The child who paints pretty pictures or whizzes through the IQ test is called "gifted." The one who plants an ingenious stink bomb in the teachers...
...banks to put a voluntary "freeze" on bank loans. Britain was also helped by the worldwide drop in prices of raw materials. Its austerity program worked, and by mid-1958 Britain again had more than $3 billion in gold and exchange in the till-and new self-confidence. It freed the economy from a tangle of regulations, lowered income and corporate taxes, made sterling convertible, and announced the end of import restrictions against most goods coming from the dollar area...
Stanley Jay is drolly Pickwickian as the head-borough Verges. But Ralph Drischell has extracted little of the meat from the self-inflated, malapropistic Dogberry. Robert Evans fails to convey the villainy of Don John, who openly proclaims his evilness several times to the audience; he is nothing worse than childishly petulant. John Brockington's friar also needs more work...