Word: frightful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illuminating essay on T. S. Eliot he anticipates and answers many of the questions readers are likely to ask about Eliot's poetry. He shows in detail how Eliot mixes pretentious eloquence and street slang, ancient myths and snatches of borrowed verse to portray an age of "social fright." As Frankenberg traces Eliot's poetic development from weary irony to religious faith, the reader does learn something about the moods and mechanics of modern poetry...
Margot remembers the day Markova left the company. "Madame [de Valois] was talking to my mother. She said rather casually, 'I think we'll drop the classical ballets for a year and next year I'll put Margot in Giselle.' I absolutely died of fright...
Philadelphia's ancient and grimy Re publican political machine has controlled the city for more than seven decades by judiciously keeping it corrupt and con tent. But two years ago, when municipal employees demanded $5,000,000 in wage raises, Philadelphia's bosses made a fright ful mistake. They passed the buck to a committee of fifteen prominent citizens. Instead of sportingly recommending tax boosts, the committee proposed that the city simply save the money by operating more efficiently. It began investigating municipal affairs to find out how it could be done...
...last month it was announced that Louis Armstrong would play a three-week stand at Bop City in New York. This notice badly frightened those who have been looking to Satchmo' to stifle the moans and yelps of the musical fringe that is bop; but the fright passed as Armstrong stuck to his two-beat last and gave no ground to the banana-split-and-beret coterie that haunts the "bars" in bop halls. It would seem that there are still people who prefer the easy phrases of Dixieland to the jolts and bumps of the new form...
...results were sensational. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar fought to get her services as a mannequin; she has worked for both. Horst, one of the first photographers for whom she posed, recalls that she trembled with fear during her early sittings, but soon lost her stage fright, and became a top Paris, model. (She once posed in an evening gown while hanging on to the Eiffel Tower with one hand and one foot...