Word: hullabaloo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite their professional sophistication, the Porgy people were impressed by the cultural hullabaloo stirred up by their visit. "Yep," said one, "we got history fenced...
Legworlc. Columnist David Lawrence, a staunch Eisenhower man, thought that, despite the forthcoming campaign hullabaloo, "a preponderant number of citizens have already made up their minds how they are going to vote." But the Chicago Tribune's Walter Trohan contended that the last two weeks of the old 1948 campaign saw "certain" Republican victory "transformed to crushing defeat." and noted that the Democrats have "a hard hitting team" this time. The New York Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond thought that Stevenson and Estes Kefauver were off to a fast start, with a big improvement in the Democratic nominee...
...Plymouth Rock landed on the Pilgrims. For Mr. Wonderful much less suggests Nightclub Artist Sammy Davis Jr. finally landing on Broadway than Broadway landing on him. It has bedded down this master of loud sounds in pointless noise; it has surrounded this demon of driving energy with feckless hullabaloo. The effect is of a nightclub talent not so much fighting his way out of a musicom-edy frame as out of a cage-and of having to elude a posse until it is so winded it lets him be the whole show...
...Billy Graham will get a few thousand 'decision' cards signed. There will be a great hullabaloo on radio and television. And the church will again sink into 'innocuous desuetude,' from which it hoped Billy would rescue it. Haven't the Protestant leaders of the city thought of these hazards? Or have they decided that a little publicity and organized evangelistic effort is such a great boon, that the price of presenting Christianity as a series of simple answers to complex questions is a good bargain...
Jean Simmons sings sharp, in a voice that is not much better, but she flings herself into Sarah's saturnalia with a pelvic hullabaloo that should make the public forget about her upper register. Vivian Elaine, the only big name held over from the Broadway cast, is just right as the blonde who celebrates her anniversary (14 years engaged) by catching a cold in her Bronxial tubes; and when she screeches Take Back Your Mink ("to from whence it came"), the evening is made. Frank Sinatra, as Nathan Detroit, not only acts as if he can't tell...