Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congregation of 2,500 and many outside organizations, Dr. Sockman writes books. Published last week (and the January selection of the Religious Book Club) was his 14th, The Higher Happiness (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $2). Devoted to a discussion of the Beatitudes, it serves as a typical sample of the effortless, untheoretical Sockman way of making religion a seven-day-week concern to his readers and listeners...
From that point on, the joke is obvious. Here is no seal clumsily tooting a trumpet and waving a flag in a sawdust ring, but a seal suddenly released into a tank of water -lithe, graceful, confident and effortless. Subtly and with never a false move, Carol's whole expressive body flows with the rhythm of the music. As she sings, every motive in Lorelei's predacious little soul becomes hilariously clear. At the end of her first chorus, both Carol and Lorelei Lee belong to the audience forever. What Author Loos wrote between the lines and accented...