Word: strips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Comic-Strip Shaw. For 23 years on the Tribune, Cassidy not only criticized the cultural world of Chicago; to a large extent, she ran it. She helped persuade Conductor Fritz Reiner to take over the Chicago Symphony (1953-62), and she helped build up the estimable Chicago Lyric Opera. When she liked something -or someone-she lavished compliments. She was one of the first to praise and promote Tennessee Williams. Reviewing the 1944 world premiere of The Glass Menagerie, she wrote: "It is honest, tender, tough and brilliant...
...Cassidy was read mostly for her attacks. Her reviews were often florid, sometimes shockingly inaccurate-she once confused Haydn with Prokofiev-but rarely dull. After seeing Olivia de Havilland in Candida, she wrote: "A pallid, one-dimensional heroine in a kind of comic-strip Shaw. When she enters, she is an interruption, nothing more." She dismissed Conductor Rafael Kubelik: "The symphony was as shapeless as his curious beat, being distorted by arms stiff as driving pistons or limp as boiled spaghetti...
...issue was Article 19 of the U.N. Charter, which provides that members failing to pay their dues lose their vote in the General Assembly. The U.S. had argued that special assessments to pay for U.N. peace-keeping forces in the Middle East's Gaza Strip and the Congo were regular dues. Not so, said Russia and twelve other members, including France, South Africa and Belgium. Adamant, the U.S. let it be known as last year's General Assembly got under way that she would challenge Russia's right to vote. Result: to stave off a showdown...
Howling in from the South Pacific, a succession of violent storms with 65-m.p.h. winds has been raking a 1,000-mi. central strip where lowland floods and Andean avalanches have already left 88 dead, scores injured, some 90,000 homeless. On the Andes' eastern slopes in Argentina, more avalanches have killed another 43. In Chile the most crippling losses hit crops, livestock and public property...
With that apocryphal story, Author Thurman makes several points. The white South is indeed not ready for integration. Integration cannot fully arrive as long as the Negro feels he must strip himself of his folkways to enter the white man's world, or as long as the white man expects...