Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Solid Advice. In Sydney, Australia, the Rev. Jack Leonard, who is also a ventriloquist, showed up for Sunday school with a wooden dummy on his lap, obliged his youthful parishioners to listen while it delivered a 20-minute sermon...
...insanity normal to a bloodline transmitted for generations through the marriage of brother and sister. But when the priests of Amon, in the traditional coronation ceremony, pushed the new Pharaoh alone into the pitch-dark holy of holies and touched him with the dry hands of a jointed wooden idol, the royal mind snapped...
...scale U.S. symphony to visit Turkey in years gave two concerts at Istanbul's bowl-shaped, Open-Air Theater. At the head of the 106-piece New York Philharmonic, Bernstein faced an audience of music-hungry Turks that overflowed the bowl's 5,000 seats, crashed through wooden barriers and stampeded past police lines to jam every aisle and step...
...first baseman for both All-Star Games, and the team's most popular player with San Francisco fans. Puerto Rican-born Cepeda is roaming the daisies in leftfield, where he manages to hustle under fly balls despite a pair of feet so flat that they seem shod in wooden Dutch shoes...
...Cassidy's infant foster daughter, his dull and his dangerous cronies, his personal instability as readily as her father's orthodox wisdom. When she finally goes to bed with Cassidy, it is with the air of "This, too, shall pass." For all that, Myra is not a wooden figure. She is at least as believable in her resignation as is Eva in her chin-up tenacity...