Word: woodshedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Novels. The trouble with most of the famous gunskinners was that they started to believe their own publicity. The legend of the West was growing almost as fast as the reality. The dime novels, with a bow to James Fenimore Cooper, had begun to give a first, rough literary...
Smith: I was coming to that. Point is, the American people have been buying a huge volume of goods, and they're pleased with their high standard of living. But just as services-TV repairing, dry cleaning, and such-have got more expensive, a lot of them got steadily...
Democrats roar when Truman whales away at Dwight Eisenhower: "Any Democrat can beat him." They delight in his jibes at Republicans: "The country needs a Democratic Administration as bad as it ever did in history. [Pause.] No, it couldn't be worse than in 1929." They grin when he...
"A Friend of the Family." Playacting, she remembers, was frowned on in that house. When Norma Jeane danced and sang and acted out her childish fantasies, she was sternly informed that such things were evil. She learned to hide in the woodshed when she wanted to pretend "a life more...
Kipling is the wicked uncle of the modern British mind -the one they don't talk about, the one who went broke going to the wars and who died intestate, without visitors, in a Home. But now the belated floral tributes of highbrow attention have begun to come in...