Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight selections by almost-blind Pianist Tatum, deserving hero of a whole generation of jazzmen, nimble Guitarist Everett Barksdale, and Slam Stewart, the man with the talking bass fiddle. Typical selections: a surrealist version of September Song, and Just One of Those Things, which goes like sixty...
Swamp-Fire (Kay Starr; Capitol). A tough, jivey version of a sultry oldtimer. It is sung in characteristic style by Songstress Starr, who was one of the first to popularize the slithering, wrong-note technique of today's pop singers...
Important Hints. Cullmann agrees with the Catholics on the evidence of Peter's transfer to Rome, though he concedes that the evidence is indirect. Going further. Cullmann endorses the traditional version of Peter's death. The early evidence for this, also, is no more than "hints," for Christian writers did not begin mentioning Peter's Roman martyrdom until the second and third centuries. But the hints are important ones, e.g., in all the church controversies of the early centuries, no one saw fit to deny Peter's Roman martyrdom. As Cullmann observes: "Were we to demand...
...Neill's own version of George F. Babbitt is William A. Brown. He appeared for the first time in The Great God Brown (on the stage of the Greenwich Village Theater in 1926), an outwardly happy businessman ("the visionless demigod of our new materialistic myth-a Success"). His antagonist is an artistic soul both envied and victimized by Brown. The artistic soul cries out: "Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am L. afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh...
...standard items cheerfully, because he has worked out a tacit agreement with his sponsor, Hallmark Cards: "If I do four or five popular hits, then they'll let me do a serious show." Among his other serious shows to date: the trial of Socrates and a rather flat version of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid ("It laid an egg, but in ten years my sponsors will be proud they were among the first to produce Moliere on TV.") Next month McCleery again turns to Maurice Evans and Shakespeare with a two-hour production of Richard...