Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lower Depths. In Columbus, the Ohio Penitentiary News published an editorial denouncing intramural thefts of razors, shaving lotion, a Parker "51" pen, deodorant sticks, chopped ham, talcum powder, radio plugs, shave sticks and a pair of gloves, said: "We are appealing to each inmate to help eliminate these low-type characters that are in our midst...
...that the Rambler was bought no oftener as a second car (one in three sales) than Big Three low-priced cars. George Romney became a prophet with honor in his own country. In 1955 he had predicted: "By 1960, the compact car will be a top contender with present-type cars for the bulk of the market...
...television western far surpassed the popularity of its previous incarnations in the dime novel, the tent show, the wide screen? Why has it overtaken the space cowboys, the precinct operas and the llama dramas? Says ABC Program Director Thomas W. Moore: "The western is just the neatest and quickest type of escape entertainment, that's all." But few are willing to let it go at that. Parents and professional worriers are concerned about the violence and sadism in the horse opera. Psychoanalysts are looking for sex symbols (all those guns, of course), Oedipal patterns (to kill the wicked sheriff...
Salt Pork & Sundown. The western hero, as worshiped in 1959, is derived from a type that was extant for only a brief moment of history-between 1865, when the Civil War ended, and 1886-87. when 80% of the cattle in the West froze to death in two savage winters. "There's no law west of Kansas City," the saying went, "and west of Fort Scott, no God." The Sioux and the Apache were making their last stands. The first big gold and silver strikes were made in Colorado and Nevada, and the no-good and the adventurous went...
...Impasse Ronsin. There, in a litter of old iron, cooky crumbs and whirling clockwork, Tinguely constructs his "abstractions," erratically watched over by his wife Eva. Says her husband: "She paints the kind of things Edgar Allan Poe would have, if he'd been able to paint. See the type...