Word: written
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After all, explained Gary, it is not Bing before whom they want to strut their stuff. "There has been so much bad written about us that we all wanted to show people that we are not just four lazy fops hanging around Hollywood with too much money. We had to prove that at least some of us have talent...
...management toward the steelworkers' bid for higher wages. By last week, the fifth week of idleness for the biggest U.S. industry, these broad matters revolved around a little-known section of the steel contract that has brought negotiations to a virtual standstill. The section: the past-practices clause. Written into contracts since 1947, the clause jealously protects local working practices or customs that have existed regularly over a long period, in effect provides that if a man did a job one way several years ago, he is entitled to do it the same way today...
...ordinary literary standards, Guest's verse was mundane doggerel, written in soporific singsong and filled with synthetic back-country colloquialism. Guest's world abounded with wimmen folks, doctor folks, farmer folks and jes' plain folks. He extolled friendship and friends, God and worship, his wife Nellie, his son Bud, his daughter Janet, the virtues of porch sitting, of babies, tablecloths, wood-burning stoves and wooden tubs, sausage, and two kinds of pie (lemon and raisin). To Edgar Guest, death was "God's great slumber grove" or "the golden afterwhile." Samples of his rhyming...
Novelist Douglas himself dismissed his ludicrous situations and pasteboard characters as "tiresomely decent," and moviegoers might have been spared this whole hodgepodge had the author lived. The year he finished Fisherman, he said: "I'm just an irascible old man who has written a book and wants it to stay a book! I don't want the movies fumbling with it. It's too much for the movies...
...Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth, a male high-school teacher is drawn into an unconscious rivalry with a bright boy in the class over the prettiest girl. When the teacher intercepts a soppy note written by the girl saying that she loves him, he is touched and elated. His joy is short-lived. It turns out that the bright boy has coached the girl to guy all the male teachers with the same note. Friends from Philadelphia gives a self-made man with culture gnawing at his pride the chance to score off his Ivy elitenik neighbors with...