Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Williams is convinced that his own dramas are basically "more concerned with morality than most plays." So far, Tennessee's sessions on the couch have not noticeably lightened or sweetened his work. Title of the next play he has in mind for Broadway: Sweet Bird of Youth. The theme: "The corruption of a young man, the corruption of an older woman, and the corruption of an entire community by a political boss...
...Rhythm (Teddy Wilson; Verve). For those who like their piano well-flavored and with the angularities gone. The slower selections such as All of Me sometimes lose their way, but Pianist Wilson swings through the propulsive numbers-Sweet Georgia Brown, Smile, Limehouse Blues-with fine buoyancy and the amiable air of a man who could not utter a harsh note if he tried...
...doused her hair in sweet lemonade, and before her father, the bridegroom or any of the guests could recover their senses, shaved herself bald-which to good Buddhists signifies the renunciation of all fleshly pleasures and was, therefore, a flaming insult to the groom...
...Olive Ann, and the company barely kept aloft. Cessna had even deeper problems. In the Depression he had to close his plant. What saved the company was Cessna's nephews, Dwane and Dwight Wallace, one an aeronautical engineer who once worked for Beech, the other a lawyer. By sweet-talking creditors they reopened the plant, and, though Clyde Cessna sat as president until he retired in 1934, the man in charge was Dwane Wallace, then only...
...novel. Among them: a booze-prone church organist who bikes his empties out into the country rather than stash the incriminatory bottles in his ash barrel; a lady reincarnationist who believes she once dined with a Pharaoh; the town's Mary Magdalene with whom Floyd finds it sweet to sin. These and other forlorn rebels form a kind of Freudian chorus attesting the ego-twisting power of convention...