Word: datedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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* Long afterward, when the late Carr Van Anda, managing editor, was visiting Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail in London, Northcliffe's editor opened a desk drawer and showed him a copy of the Times dated April 19, 1912. Said he: "We keep this as an example of the...
A word is due the special care spent on the printed program. The cover appropriately reproduced a lovely painting of a Renaissance singer, flautist and lutanist (which might have been identified as being by an anonymous French master c.1525 and now in the Harrach Gallery in Vienna). The composers dates...
Take away unhappy childhoods and a seething contempt for the old hometown and many a U.S. writer might never have set pen to paper. Still, rebels like Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and Theodore Dreiser were moved at least as much by compassion for their Midwestern farmers and townsfolk as they...
Everything else about the show is pretty bad. The dialogue is dated and unfunny, replete with numerous telephone calls from "Harry," references to "Margaret" and the music critics, allusions to Senator McCarthy, and unnecessary "damn's" and "hell's." Such lines as "I'm so happy I ought to be...
Miller's fame rests on Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, jubilantly riotous narratives whose sometimes hilarious smut made them contraband barracks-bag souvenirs of France for countless G.I.s. Tropic of Cancer went off like a time bomb in the literary world of 1934. A generation wearied of...