Word: sparkingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theatrical career has been beset by police raids and moralistic outcries. But to most, Mae's meanderings were enlivened and redeemed by an intuitive sense of the ridiculous and a cheerful vulgarity. F. Scott Fitzgerald found Mae the only Hollywood actress with "an ironic edge, a comic spark." British Author Hugh Walpole applauded her mockery of the "fraying morals and manners of a dreary world...
...World War II, as expanding supermarkets and drug stores grabbed an important share of the low-priced variety-store market. In self-defense Woolworth's upgraded its merchandise, spruced up its stores, shifted its emphasis to self-service stores in burgeoning suburban shopping centers. To spark its superstore and self-service programs, Woolworth's in 1954 picked a lifetime employee named Robert Campbell Kirkwood, who had started as a stock checker right out of high school in his home town of Provo, Utah 36 years before. Trim, quiet-spoken Bob Kirkwood, 54, did so well...
...gives one that satisfying feeling to read what Admiral Rickover said to Frol Kozlov at Shippingport [July 20]. I'm in favor of sending Ricky to sit in at conference with the Russkies. A hot wire like the admiral could put some spark into the doings...
When the geriatricians have succeeded in adding another age to Shakespeare's seven, what will all the porcelain teeth chatter about? The same old things, answers thirtyish Author Spark in this novel of arthritis and ague. None of her major characters will see 70 again, but since no sin has yet proved deadly, the reasoning of the ancients seems to run. there is reason to hope that wrongdoing may even be healthful. So they tyrannize each other, gloat over signs of decrepitude in contemporaries, stir the ashes and the urns of old loves with gossip. One septuagenarian lady runs...
...Death himself. Death, for the author, is a grinning morality-play specter with his arm familiarly draped around Everyman, and this theory is the most tenable one that she leaves. Some readers may object that such mysticism is too woolly, but few of them will complain that Author Spark's funerary satire lacks bite. Any reader over 25-the age at which, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said, a man realizes that he must die-will have an uneasy time forgetting this memento...