Word: fearfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idle Fear. Her travels have taken Siobhan from Broadway (The Chalk Garden, The Rope Dancers ) and off-Broadway (Saint Joan) shows to London movies
...Office TNT Scriptwriter Stanley Shapiro and Director Blake Edwards (This Happy Feeling), two of the most promising young masters of movie comedy, have applied the formula with such style that the studio has been able to guarantee the customers exactly 287 (count 'em) laughs without fear of refund. And while the public rolls in the aisles, the professionals should take careful notice. Furlough is a definitive encyclopedia of comic cliche...
...foreigners in Russia fear that microphones will be hidden in their bedrooms. The fiancee of a diplomat became so worried about this invasion of privacy that she consulted a psychiatrist. "I'd suggest," said the practical doctor, "that when you make love, you simply do so quietly...
...proposal was reported unfavorably in committee last year after a hearing at which several groups and people objected to it. But opponents this year fear the bill has a better chance of passage because of changes in the composition of the legislature...
This interest in contemporary manners shows up his book Company Manners: a cultural inquiry into American life ("The subject of how titles are arrived at is an amusing one for someone to go into some day; I had thirty minutes to make up my mind on this one, and fear the result sounds a little pompous.")--a view of contemporary culture and urban life in America. ("Urban life is all I really claim to know anything about.") Kronenberger is working on a follow-up along the same lines "if I can find enough to say that is really...