Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Star-spangled celebrities of stage & screen this week plumped for Adlai Stevenson. Among them: Humphrey Bogart, George Jessel, Bette Davis, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters...
...oversimplified dramatic homily on the theme of good & evil. Good is personified by a pure-in-heart Mexican field worker (Ricardo Montalban), who wears a Homburg hat and checked jacket and proudly sports his newly acquired U.S. citizenship. When he meets and proposes to embittered Shelley Winters (Evil), a California wino who has hit the bottom of the barrel, she says cynically: "You and me and America, that'd be a threesome for a honeymoon!" Before long, Montalban reforms not only Shelley, but also thieving Farmer Wendell Corey and his slatternly wife Claire Trevor...
...George Templeton Strong, a New York boy of 15, began a diary. In its first few years the diary recorded a gleeful account of student pranks at Columbia, a burlesque of its president's sermon on "The Moral Turpitude of Snow-Balling," a solemn discovery that Shelley's poetry was "rather humbuggical." By the time of Strong's death in 1875, the diary, with a massive total of 4.500,000 words, had become a solid record of 19th century life, a treasure house of Americana...
Danger (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). A Date at Midnight, with Joshua Shelley, Cloris Leachman...
...intellects, Adams clashed most frequently with the French philosophers, e.g., Rousseau, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Condorcet and their disciples. Adams reveals himself as one of the greatest conservatives who ever helped to make a revolution. Sample dialogue between Adams and Mary Wollstonecraft, mother-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an ardent feminist, and author of an urgent work entitled Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution...