Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never thought I'd ever see James Mason singing, soft-shoeing, and straw-hatting his way through old vaudeville routines. But that is precisely what he did in his Boston stage debut. He evidently had the same yen that Sir Laurence Olivier recently satisfied in John Osborne's The Entertainer; and what's more, both Mason's material and performance were superior to Olivier...
...writes Harold on a sheet of yellow paper, belongs to the night and together they conspire against Boston. They live illicitly, caress each other with streetlamps and shadows and juke box symphonies, the soft sob of loss, the subway shudder and the sigh. Night warms is black limbs by the gutter fires and furnace spit. We should bottle the night, prone and passive, siphon it into leather canteen flasks, take swigs of it while sunning ourselves by the river, savour it after a French loave-lunch, rub it on our arm in lieu of excrement...
Artist Avery's day has been a long time coming. Though his work now hangs in ten top U.S. museums, he has long been more a favorite with painters than with the public. But Avery. a mild-mannered, soft-spoken man with cornflower-blue eyes, has always stood outside art movements. "I'm pretty hard to catalogue," he says...
...cluttered desk, candidates often proved hilariously frank in self-appraisals. One man, recalls Baggs, admitted that he was up for election because "his wife told him to run for something so he'd get publicity, meet a few people and maybe improve his law business." Another confessed to soft-pedaling a major issue he used in a previous campaign. "I still feel the same way about that," he said, "but I got clobbered on that issue the last time...
...Soft spots in the economy were beginning to harden...