Word: folderol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, gathered at a hall in McKeesport, Pa. over their husbands' protests, whipped off angry telegrams demanding that both union and management get cracking in negotiations. Said the women in a resolution: "Let's put an end to all the folderol...
...kindly British couple gives Resi a glimpse of possible happiness, and she resolves to explore "the strange land of love where tomorrow' is not always a frightening word." Cluttered with romantic folderol. Sigh nonetheless says something about man's inhumanity to man and fleetingly embodies the Simone Weil text it takes for its theme: "At the bottom of the heart of every human being . . . there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience . . . that good and not evil will be done...
...fanfare of hopeful candidates at a U.S. national convention. Each installed a huge staff in a top Mayfair hotel and hired a pressagent to get the bandwagons going. Meanwhile, as spokesman for the proud and feudal Moslem emirs of the North, who want independence with no democratic folderol to go with it, the Sardauna let it be known that only a Northerner would be acceptable as Premier to the 17 million people of his region, who outnumber both other regions combined...
...amorous Jupiter is losing the loyalty of his court (everybody is tired of that endless nectar and ambrosia diet); so he agrees to cheer up the gods by a mass junket to the gayer clime of Hades and, incidentally, to rescue Eurydice. In hell, confusion is confounded by folderol, but finally-with the help of what is probably the fieriest cancan ever written-everyone agrees on a highly satisfactory and immoral solution...
...Newsman Chet Hagen (NBC): "In '52, the TV gimmick ran the newsmen. At these conventions the news will come first, even if we don't always have a picture to go along with it." Adds CBS Production Boss Paul Levitan: "There's too much emphasis on folderol-that's just the pad and pencil of the TV reporter. Our job is simply to report the news...