Word: uplifter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Funereal Chimes. Trapped in soda fountains or chrome-aluminum roadside diners and forced to listen to such uplift, elders may blink in dismay. Pop songs are now, more than ever before, tailored to the adolescents who buy them. But the gloom boom...
...Massive Uplift. Britain has always had its share of great beauties, who perhaps by their very rarity moved poets to rhapsodies and courtiers to either folly or matrimony. Endowed with broad brow, straight nose (admired by Englishmen in both their hounds and their women) and what 17th Century Poet Robert Herrick termed a "swan straining, faire, rare stately neck," isolated beauties from Charles II's Nell Gwyn to Lady Hamilton have shared with Edwardian Actress Lily Langtry the brow, the neck, a mass of lovely hair, and skin like an English rose...
...English critic, its automatic recoil from "any program that will seriously annoy the Church of England, the Royal Family, the three services, the British Medical Association or the Law Society." It enjoyed a monopoly in British radio broadcasting for 33 years, during which its Oxford-accented air of uplift earned the BBC the fond, but not too fond, nickname "Auntie." Five years ago, along came commercial TV. The Tory government created the privately owned Independent Television Authority to give Auntie competition. With a zest for controversy and no qualms about serving up popular fare (much of it made in America...
...delights those who feel that "a dirty mind is a continual feast." The modern critics of Shakespeare argue that he lacks a point of view. T. S. Eliot charges that his philosophy was "inferior" to Dante's; G. B. Shaw finds that he offers no message of social uplift, and ranks him below G. B. Shaw...
...Roof "a symphony of evil"-Dakin nonetheless finds an implied positive in each. Rape of a sister-in-law (A Streetcar Named Desire), homosexuality (Cat, etc.), cannibalism (Suddenly, Last Summer), garden-variety adultery (Orpheus Descending) and castration (Sweet Bird of Youth} may not be radiant with uplift, but "there can be no valid moral objection to the exposure of this sort of sin in human nature." The only Tennessee Williams product ever condemned by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, Williams' brother points out, was the film Baby Doll, and the problem there lay more in Hollywood than...