Word: sullivane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After addresses by various Commerce officials and Mayor Edward J. Sullivan, the group saw "Our Living Future," a visual education program presented by ACTION (the American Council To Improve Our Neighborhoods) in cooperation with Life magazine...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). With Joyce Grenfell, Lucille Ball...
...might also be possible to argue that the play could use a different leading man. Barry Sullivan, in the role of the police lieutenant, blurs some of the finer tones of a complex and potentially almost tragic character. A paradoxical mixture of physical strength, heroism, and of nearly morbid sensitivity, the lieutenant is driven to break South Africa's iron law by the frigidity of his wife and a lack of understanding on the part of his father. Sullivan's portrayal of the man's strength is clear and impressive, but his weaknesses appear as if they were brought...
Elvis Presley, the 21-year-old bobby-soxers' delight, shot the Ed Sullivan Show's rating up to 43.7-highest in two years. Actor Charles Laughton, his glib tongue in his dumpling cheek, introduced Elvis with: "Ed insisted I give a high tone to the proceedings," then, to the frenzied shrieks of the teenagers, let Hillbilly Presley take over. Crooner Presley, sideburns dripping with sweat and goose grease, mumbled through three songs, gave his guitar a thorough clouting, contorted his mouth suggestively and his pelvis more so. When it was over, parents and critics, as usual...
Novelist Howe's book is most satisfying when it careens through the sacred precincts of Holy Old Boston. She does a brilliant autopsy on Maggie's Bradfield in-laws, with their clapboard Essex County cottages named after characters in Gilbert and Sullivan and their stupefying Sunday evenings of jolly songs, recitations and parlor games. As her first husband explains: "The whole point of a family party is that you don't have to talk. It would ruin it if you had to be thinking of things to say." But once Maggie is launched into the world beyond...