Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million." Even a belief in the existence of the "common man" can be dangerous, for men are apt to behave as they are expected to, and the common man may become deadly common - conformist putty in the hands of science and society. He does not want to stick his neck out or get his feelings "mixed up" in things. He knows that strong feelings are as dangerous as disease, having read articles like "Emotion Can Give You a Running Nose." He is a pragmatist, a materialist, a "healthy sceptic," a "tough realist" -and Author Whitman warns-he is "as inadequate...
Rossini: Stabat Mater (Maria Stader, Marianna Radev, Ernst Häfliger, Kim Borg; RIAS Symphony conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca, 2 LPs). The composer who was once advised by Beethoven to stick to comic opera, here turns up in a churchly (if not always churchlike) mood. The chorus sings some lofty and properly devotional counter point, but the lovely solo voices have arias that bounce and flow with the joyfulness of the Barber of Seville. Performance: elegant...
Compared to the papier-maché heroes of most Hollywood westerns, Davy Crockett is filled with engaging human imperfections : he loses his first hand-to-hand battle with the Indian chief, Red Stick, and only succeeds in overcoming villainous Mike Mazurki by biting his opponent's thumb. There are some stereotypes-Buddy Ebsen has the familiar role of the trusty pal, and Hans Conreid plays a cowardly gambler with synthetic W. C. Fields flourishes. But, all in all, Davy makes his giant-sized legend come as truly alive as that of Mike Fink, the river boatman, or Paul Bunyan...
...brutal discipline," says Washington Free-Lancer Sidney Shalett, "and you have to stick to it. If you make the mistake of trying to write fiction in your spare time or fix light bulbs around the house, you're finished." The illusion of not having a boss is also deceptive; instead of one boss they have to satisfy a dozen editors. Says Free-Lancer Maurice Zolotow, who often writes about personalities in the entertainment world: "Once every year most free-lancers are bound to go through a period of despondency. Editors just don't seem to appreciate your genius...
...being hotly debated. In its sordidness it recalled, among other sad and disorderly exits, the death of Edgar Allan Poe.* But it proves something about Dylan Thomas, and about the typical kibitzers of greatness who flocked to him. The hangers-on are still fighting, figuratively, over his body. Some stick to the story that Thomas died of a cerebral injury caused by a fall at a drinking party. Another group hints that Thomas was fatally dosed with morphine by a doctor whom a rival clique had summoned to treat the poet's alcoholic miseries. Dame Edith Sitwell, rising disdainfully...