Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE NIGHT CONCETTA ANN INGOLIA WENT INTO HER DANCE (Connie Stevens).
Tallyho. Actors with plain, pronounceable, American Legion sort of names yearn for toning up. Ruby Stevens is Barbara Stanwyck; Peggy Middleton is Yvonne De Carlo; Norma Jeane Baker is Marilyn Monroe. Even Gladys Smith found a little more stature in the name Mary Pickford. On the other hand, embarrassed bluebloods...
The one jazz attempt, "A Christmas ," which tells of a young teenage girl who hates pheasants, turkeys can't use Santa's "goddamned presents," isn't bad, but the style is ill advised. The whole idea of this love starved bobbysoxer craving Santa's own personal affections would have been...
In many ways, it took Marin 40 years to find himself. Raised by two maiden aunts in Weehawken. N.J. (his mother died nine days after his birth), he attended Stevens Institute of Technology for a year, drifted from job to job, spent six frustrating years trying to turn himself into...
But as the '30s stumbled toward catastrophe, poetry blundered deeper into obscurity and ambiguity, into the talented but precious minutiae of Wallace Stevens and William Empson, whose poems often suggest esthetic scrimshaw, a cathedral carved in a cherry pit. Poetry became a world unto itself, a self-sealing vacuum...