Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reader Trozzolo must consider, I have to assume, that a man who devotes his life to the spiritual guidance of his fellow men (Spellman, Sheen, Gushing) lacks the perseverance of such reality facers as Messrs. Dio, Anastasia, Luciano...
...Ballade. What the audience heard was an open, evenly controlled sound that could sing with a clean vibrato or a finely trimmed staccato, swell robustly and solidly with no trace of the breathy "air sound." Under Mule's scurrying fingers, the saxophone sometimes took on the quick sheen of strings, or the water-clear inflections of the flute, or the warm quality of the bassoon. Gone were the wah-wahs and wobbles, the slithers and wai.s of the pop saxophonist...
...until I'm well enough," and Ed Wynn goggled on-screen to explain why his girl is so fastidious: "Her father's fast, her mother hideous." The U.N. debated aggression in Korea. An A-bomb exploded at Yucca Flat. There were Dinah, Perry, Howdy Doody and Bishop Sheen, and Lawyer Joseph Welch quietly flaying the late Senator McCarthy: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." Milton Berle, the granddaddy of TV comics, came out of retirement to give the Infant its best moments. Shorn of his gag-machine brassiness, Berle...
...first religious leader to preach to audiences of millions at a time was Manhattan's Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, who, after 25 years of radio-rating, moved into TV in 1952, attracted as many as 16 million listeners over 144 stations. With pontific gesture but light-hearted approach, he used blackboard drawings to discuss philosophy, referred to the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Television," earned high ratings even opposite Lucy and You Bet Your Life...
Last week Emmy-winning Bishop Sheen announced that he would leave TV "temporarily" in order to devote more time to his "first duty, which is to be a beggar with a tin cup in my hand for the poor of the world." Added Sheen: "From a worldly point of view there are many reasons for continuing on TV; but from a spiritual point of view, one must occasionally retire from the lights of TV to the shades and shadows of the Cross, where the soul is refreshed and strengthened. As the retirement was dictated by spiritual considerations, so will...