Word: classicize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classic definition of Mr. Justice Holmes, the right of free speech ends when a man falsely cries "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Does academic freedom also have its limits...
...town in later life Mayer was an equally contradictory character-a classic Hollywood hunter who nevertheless "preferred to think of the women he embraced as sacred vessels,-potential mothers, rather than as what they obviously were." With less restraint than Hedda Hopper, the biographer names the vessels Mayer may or may not have embraced. On one of his frequent European talent safaris, reports Crowther, Mayer was completely entranced with an unknown Hungarian actress named Haj-massy; he signed her to a contract as Ilona Massey immediately after a dance floor accident, when a broken shoulder strap "exposed a great deal...
...adapted the forms of classic poets to his own use, as in this quatrain after Omar Khayyam...
...major criticisms by many a Wall Streeter of the technical approach to the market is that the technicians often cannot agree on what the charts signal. Last month, when the Dow-Jones industrial and rail averages dropped through their previous lows, such classic Dow theorists as Richard Russell held that a bear market was on (TIME, March 14). But another group of Dow theorists, led by E. George Schaefer of Indianapolis, argued that it was a false bear signal: the market was really getting ready to rise to new highs...
...Hour of Great Mysteries (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The first of a series of classic mysteries adapted for TV. Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat stars Helen Hayes and Jason Robards Jr. Host: Joseph Welch...