Word: walloper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verge of collapse. An account of a heavyweight prizefighter whose devotion to a pet lion leads him to kill a man finds the author himself fighting out of his class and losing the decision on pointlessness. Too talky for his stories' good, Paterson packs small emotional wallop. But at his best he can tell a fresh tale with few frills and no assist from his analyst's corner...
Vienna's magnificent old Opera House on the Ring was still recuperating from its wartime bombing and fire wounds; its reconstruction might take till 1953. But even so, Vienna last week opened its 1950-51 opera season with a wallop...
...since 1934: the charge of Democratic softness toward Communists. Familiar with such tactics as they were, from previous encounters in the ring, the President and his aides were plainly worried about how to counter the punches this year. The trials of Hiss, Fuchs and Coplon gave the Republicans more wallop than they had before. The headline-catching feints of Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy (see below), even if he hadn't landed any hard blows, were not making it any easier. Five speech-writing aides were put to work preparing the pattern of the President's countertactics...
...olive-colored world that Kay Sage confines to canvas is wide, wet, uninhabited and untroubled. Her private cloudland, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, might depress some people but would hardly disturb anybody. Surrealist though her paintings were, they had no more wallop than a wisp of smoke...
...settling for weirdness without wallop, Painter Sage parted the twin gods of modern art. Her current reputation as one of the country's most talented dream-scapists proved it could be done...