Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summary discussion of the great amount of poetry in this issue would be as presumptuous as it would be useless. Lyon Phelps, Angus Fletcher, Ruth Whitman, and Hugh Amory have made contributions which will in some cases richly repay close reading. I cannot omit mentioning, however, the thrill of discovery which I have experienced in the course of my readings of Mr. Amory's Lieder and his Prothalamium. I find them the most exquisite and successful achievements in the magazine. That the Lieder have probed so centrally into a relationship, that the Prothalamium attains a ritual by means of manifold...
While relentlessly pursuing international drug traffickers, however, Louis Métra confessed a romantic sympathy for the addicts - especially artists, writers and wealthy thrill-seekers - who bought their goods. "My curiosity is renewed each time I watch an opium smoker going through the rite," he once said. "It is like a priest venerating a divinity. The bluish smoke goes up like incense dedicated to some ethereal goddess. Opium smokers are delicate, delicious people...
...Vegas, Top of the Mark, a New Orleans jam session, the Washington Monument) best left to home movies. On the whole, the trouble with Cinerama Holiday is that it employs such mighty means to such an insignificant end. As one customer remarked, "You get at least half the thrill of a roller-coaster ride for only ten times the price...
Thigamajig (Mel Powell Trio; Vanguard LP). Another in Vanguard's fine jazz series. Powell's piano and the trumpet-playing of Boston's Ruby Braff have a bright fresh effect, both in the oldies, like You're My Thrill, and in the fanciful modernities of Powell's own Bouquet...
...complex tale of knights and knaves is packed with scenes of horror. Children are slaughtered, adolescent girls raped, women's breasts cut off, men's eyes torn out. But unlike most historical novelists, Author Oldenbourg does not indulge in bloodletting and vices for the sake of the thrill. She has merely held up a mirror to the 13th century so that her readers might know what it was like. Young Haguenier's marriage and romance show in painstaking detail how a young man of good family once lived, wedded and loved. Herbert's story...