Word: sullivanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them up with everything from lion tamers and wire walkers to the Ronnie Lewis Trio, the Flying Alexanders, and Hugo Zacchini. the Human Cannon Ball. But as Ringmaster Vincent Price calls off act after act, The Big Circus often looks like a gaudily colored CinemaScope production of the Ed Sullivan Show...
...more than three-quarters of a million copies. Tiger, his latest, a song that Columnist John Crosby observes is "enormously improved by total unintelligibility," is climbing fast. Its popularity helps 16-year-old Fabian earn up to $12,000 a night, gets him TV appearances with Perry Como, Ed Sullivan, and other TV bigwigs...
...realized that it was a phony from the start. The Spitter was written 13 years ago by Boris Vian (a civil engineer by day, a jazz trumpeter in a Left Bank cave by night); its publishers claimed that it was a translation from a U.S. novel by one Vernon Sullivan. The public loved its fake sociology and integrated lust, but when police found a copy beside a murder victim and saw that the book was opened to the account of a similar crime, the Ministry of the Interior banned the book as objectionable "foreign" literature...
From the Washington bureau, White House Correspondent Charles Mohr followed President Eisenhower on his trip to Manhattan to welcome Kozlov; Correspondent Mark Sullivan tracked the Russian steadily through public and private functions in Washington; Anne Chamberlin flew to California in the Kozlov plane, persuaded him to answer the first personal biographical questions he had ever answered. The Kozlov story-a narrative of his travels and a portrait of his personality-was written by Jesse Birnbaum and edited by Louis Banks. It is preceded in NATIONAL AFFAIRS by a story that puts his visit and all the current visits by Americans...
...Technical Dam-Burst." Taking time out this week, Gropius will go to New Orleans to receive the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects, the profession's highest award, given in the past to such men as Louis Henri Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. It will also give Gropius a chance to get some long-brooding concerns off his chest. Says Gropius: "We have now amassed such a tremendous arsenal of techniques that their bristling display has nearly robbed us of our sense of balance...