Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although the kind of music they sing on the granddaddy of the country radio shows has often been taken over by pop singers and made into hits (Tennessee Waltz, You Are My Sunshine), few country singers have made the pop charts on their own. But in the wake of Elvis Presley (not considered genuine country by the connoisseurs), two Nashville favorites have gone to the fore in the pop world's latest phase, "rockabilly." The successful practitioners are Ferlin Husky and Marty Robbins, both having their first bestselling pop-record hits...
James Joyce, the great artificer of words who both revitalized and nearly destroyed the English novel with Ulysses, and left even some of his admirers behind in the labyrinth of Finnegans Wake, will not be remembered for his letters. In them he sounds as relaxed, colloquial, and sometimes as pedestrian as a chatty uncle in Chicago. But they make fascinating reading-something like seeing the Bearded Lady without her whiskers or the Fire Eater spooning ice cream...
...muffled in the terse announcement by the Ministry of Supply, which said little more than that "the first explosion of a nuclear device in the present series took place yesterday in the Central Pacific at a high altitude." But there was still a shock wave of protest in its wake...
...whole, the film compares favorably with the play. The scriptwriters, Phoebe and Henry Ephron, have added some happy touches of silly business. And though Actress Hepburn tends to wallow in the wake of Shirley Booth, who played the part on Broadway, she never quite sinks in the comic scenes, and in the romantic ones she is light enough to ride the champagne splashes of emotion as if she were going over Niagara in a barrel. Spencer Tracy has one wonderful slapstick scene, and Gig Young does very well with a comic style for which he is much beholden to William...
...Gallup poll was needed at the White House last week to announce a bitter bit of news: in the wake of the budget ruckus, Dwight Eisenhower's authority had ebbed low on Capitol Hill.* But among Ike's advisers unhappy knowledge drew divided reaction. Ignore it, said some. Counter it, suggested others, by delivering a frontal assault on the economy-harried Congress. Eventually Ike decided to move midway between suggestions, deliver a three-pronged plea: to the people by television, to the leaders of Congress in person, to a segment of his own disoriented party by telephone...