Word: sob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matters worse by praying for a dry track on which to run its trick horse. The Lord let it rain and the horse won anyway, but as musical theater the whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice (with a nice built-in sob) led a lusty counterpoint melody between town and clown. But Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as bandmaster and oldtime Circus Comic Buster Keaton were so much wasted tanbark. The "original" Jo Swerling-Hal Stanley music and lyrics had a too-familiar ring. ("If fate should hurt you/ I won't desert...
...firmly supports Shaw's claim to being the greatest dramatist in the English language since Shakespeare-a claim recently supported by his erratic fellow Irishman, Sean O'Casey. Wrote O'Casey in a memorable tribute: "Look at the Theatre as it was . . . So sob-sisterly, so stupid, so down to dust was the Theatre then that God turned his back to it, made for Shaw, caught him by the beard, saying, 'Go up, my Irish son, and show, Shaw, what my Theatre should...
...either name, the Times (slogan: "All the News Without Fear or Favor") is a shining postwar example for the free press in a country which, with 143 dailies, gets a heavy diet of sob stories and sensationalism. The eight-page Japan Times conscientiously buries trivia, tries painstakingly to cover the news in depth...
Opportunities & Dangers. But these are times when more than thawing and stoking is needed. The sob-punctuated speech of Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS) threw new light on a critical area of weakness in the Soviet system. To exploit the opportunities offered by that weakness, the U.S. needs, more than ever, a bold, imaginative, skillful foreign policy...
...Murrow's sob story on TV about the "death of a small farm" was interesting, but even more so is your priceless epilogue wherein Mr. Peterson's relatives state that "he just sold out because he thought he could do better in California, and they like it fine so far" [Feb. 6]. Could it be that this is the Murrow method of discrediting the Eisenhower farm program...