Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever since 1911, when James Morrison and Norma Talmadge nickered through three reels of heroism and anguish. The best of times arrived in 1935, when the late Ronald Colman came through with a portrayal of the novel's hero that had dash and dignity as well as the usual desuetude. In this latest attempt, British Actor Dirk Bogarde* gives it a game go, but he never quite fights his way out of a paper Carton...
...Some newspapers that passed it by-Chicago American, Rocky Mount (N.C.) Telegram-called it "inflammatory." Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette did not use it, and Editor Harry Ashmore said: "Moving the picture on the wire was inexcusable. The fact is that racial incidents are no higher here than usual, despite the continuing struggle over school desegregation...
...France's small but select Academic Septentrionelle and take a seat left vacant since the death of Rudyard Kipling. Among the birthday salutes this week is a book of personal tributes (T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday; Farrar. Straus & Cudahy; $5). Its contributors, alongside the usual literary figures, include English schoolboys and girls between the ages of 14 and 18. most of whom sound so solemn and professional as to suggest that England is raising a generation of literary critics. But there are also many signs that Eliot can still stir the young. A 15-year...
...usual definition, the nation's newest magazine is no magazine at all. It has a hard vermilion cover, 48 color pictures, and not even a breath of an ad. Setting for itself the boundless task of scanning all the arts, book-priced ($3.95 in bookstores), Horizon is lavish, brash, wide-ranging...
...Broom. Together, the Freemans and the Morleys led a life that was dramatic, intimate and unique in the annals of British monarchy. Almost annually, Mrs. Morley and Mrs. Freeman became dutifully pregnant, suffered the usual miscarriages and infant deaths, played godmother to each other's surviving offspring. On the great day in 1702 when the newly proclaimed Queen made her first grand entrance into Parliament, she did so with Sarah Churchill as her attendant and John Churchill marching in front, carrying the great sword of state. And after Churchill's victory over the French at Blenheim, everyone knew...