Word: showmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John Randolph Neal, 83, who precipitated the Dayton, Tenn. "monkey trial" in 1925 by urging Teacher John Scopes to defy state law and teach Darwin's evolution, served as Scopes's chief counsel (though overshadowed by the showmanship of his famed colleague Clarence Darrow), lost the case (Scopes was fined $100) but won the war; in Rockwood, Tenn...
Under One Roof. With his monocle, his grey, lavender-tinted gloves, his white forelock setting off Italianate good looks, Whistler cultivated an exotic showmanship to mask self-doubts about his craft. The company he kept added a satanic touch by being mad, neurasthenic, and sexually deviate or profligate. The most colorful of the odd lot was Charles Augustus Howell. One of his exploits was to dig up the coffin of Elizabeth Rossetti by moonlight to retrieve a manuscript her grieving husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, had buried with the body. Howell housed his wife, a bevy of artistically inclined mistresses...
...form of "payola," which means that relatively few songs are played on the air unless the song publisher is willing to share performance fees with a production official. Not all these practices are confined to TV. But nowhere else have glossy Madison Avenue hucksterism and clamorous carnival showmanship combined with such crass results...
...before him, Rocky added to a long evening with a high-minded, deadly serious speech on the need for the U.S. to match its principles with deeds. He was interrupted only once by applause. And the performance looked worse than it actually was in contrast with the subsequent showmanship of Senator John F. Kennedy, a seasoned campaigner who sensed his audience's aching desire for brevity and a spark of humanity. Democrat Kennedy supplied it by throwing away most of his text, giving Republican Rockefeller a string of verbal hotfoots, then swiftly wrapping up Rocky's own point...
...drew a $5,000 advance "for Christmas presents" at a time when he could have lost all his winnings-$20,000 at the time. Before the Congressmen and S.R.O. audiences in a huge, white-columned House caucus room, the witnesses gave a rare and disturbing backstage peek at carnival showmanship and cupidity...