Word: sophisti
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...college Mollie embraces boys, Shakespeare ("fabulous"), an avant-garde poetry instructor, folk singing, atomic protest ("Free Bertrand Russell!"). She comes home on vacation a cool sophisti-cat, all burnished claws and no filial purr, and asks what kind of gin Daddy uses in his martinis. As Dad turns the color of vermouth, Mom remarks sagely that Mollie will "never again be as old as she is right...
...first series, jacked prices to $2.20 for the second. She is the only agent who specializes in artists who shuttle between concert hall and nightclub. Members of her stable: Tap Dancer Lawrence, a Trinidad dancer and Calypso singer named Belle Rosette, a Negro singing quintet called the Sophisti-chords, three dancing Ecuadorian Indians...
Through its protagonists the censorship conflict threw into relief two phases of western culture-the Old West, personified by Senator Smoot, Utah-born. Mormon-educated, moral, righteous; and the New West, personified by Senator Cutting, New York-born, Harvard-educated, "sophisti-cated," broadminded...
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