#clifton fadiman

[oldshowbiz]

The sponsors of This is Show Business wanted to fire Clifton Fadiman, Abe Burrows, and George S. Kaufman.

#george s. kaufman #abe burrows #clifton fadiman #this is show business

[travsd]

Clifton Fadiman: This Was Show Business

My mind has been fairly blown by learning about Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999), a radio and television personality whose name would have been pretty universally known in America from the late ’30s through the 1950s. Not because he has been forgotten so utterly, for that’s true of so many, but that there was a place for someone of his intellectual accomplishments in popular culture at all. It was a…

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#announcer #author #broadcaster #Clifton Fadiman #editor #emcee #game show #host #Information Please #radio #Television #The Name&039;s the Same #This is Broadway #This is Show Business

[ultraozzie3000]

Lord of the Apes

In 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs published the short story Tarzan of the Apes.  Since then at least ninety books, 350 radio serials, three TV series and forty-five full-length films have told the story of the Lord of the Apes. April 28, 1934 cover by Ilonka Karasz. Tarzan was the first pop culture icon to attain worldwide fame, paving the way for a host of comic-book superheroes that would follow.…

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#Alva Johnston #Céline #Circus freaks #Clarence Day #Clifton Fadiman #E.B. White #Edgar Rice Burroughs #Ilonka Karasz #James Thurber #Johnny Weissmuller #Maureen O&039;Sullivan #Otto Soglow #SCI Time Ball #Syd Hoff #Tarzan #Tarzan and His Mate

[maleficea]

"A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs."

Clifton Fadiman, Introduction to The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher

#food #food writing #clifton fadiman #the art of eating #mfk fisher #on food #on writing

[wmiqaqueen]

#clifton fadiman #read #bookworm

[pastdaily]

The Non-Conforming American - 1955 - Past Daily Reference Room

The Non-Conforming American – 1955 – Past Daily Reference Room

In 1955 non-conformity was a big deal. https://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/the-non-conforming-american-march-12-1955.mp3 The Non-Conforming American – March 12, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – During the era of the 1950s a gradual, unmistakable undercurrent of social upheaval was starting to take place. Brought on largely by the Cold War, the threat of Nuclear annihilation ,…

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#1950&039;s #Alistair Cooke #Americana #Beat Generation #Behavior #Broadcasts #Civil Rights #civil unrest #Clifton Fadiman #Cold War #Commentators #Conflicts #Conformity #Corporate America #Counterculture #Day in history #Disconnect #Disputes #Dwight D. Eisenhower #Eisenhower #Generation Gap #Interviews #Mc Carthy era #mid-century america #Middle Class #Nonconformism #Past Daily #Past Daily Reference Room #Politics #Pop Music

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

A cheese may deesappoint. Eet may be dull, eet may be naive, it may be oversopheesteecated. Yet it remains cheese, meelk's leap toward eemmortality.

Speedy Gonzales 

#Speedy Gonzales #source: clifton fadiman

[armen-the-quote-guy]

Cheese, milk's leap toward immortality. Clifton Fadiman

#quote #quotes #armenthequoteguy

[motifcollector]

Mr. Faulkner has a set of romantic obsessions which he treats in a highly intellectual manner. He is fascinated by characters who border on idiocy; by brother-and-sister incest; by lurid religious mania; by physical and mental decay; by peasants with weird streaks of poetry; by bodily suffering; by the more horrifying aspects of sex.

Clifton P. Fadiman in a 1930 review of As I Lay Dying published in Nation

#a true tumblrina... #william faulkner #on literature

[oldshowbiz]

The Crosley Corporation wanted to fire George S. Kaufman, Abe Burrows, and Clifton Fadiman.

#clifton fadiman #crosley #george s. kaufman #abe burrows #feuds #this is show business

[atotaltaitaitale]

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After living in so many countries, you cannot oversee similarities between places you’ve been.

I was surprised to learn that like Norway (and most Nordic countries), Canada has special stores (government monopoly) to buy alcohol from (except for beers).

That’s the beauty of traveling. You learn that your normal is not everyone else normal.

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” (Clifton Paul “Kip” Fadiman)

#CelineIsNotAnExpatAnymore #c&jMontreal #CelineInSeattle&Montreal

[poems-from-around-the-world]

if you've never seen it, there's this fantastic book called 'World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time' by Katherine Washburn, John S. Major, and Clifton Fadiman. it has English translations of poems spanning over 4000 years and many languages. seems like something you would be interested in.

I am so interested in that! In fact I immediately downloaded a copy lol

#asks #recs

[ultraozzie3000]

Portraits and Prayers

Above, left, a 1935 portrait of Gertrude Stein by Carl Van Vechten; right, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas arriving in New York aboard the French Line’s SS Champlain in 1934. (Library of Congress/AP) Much of America’s literary world was abuzz about the arrival of Gertrude Stein in New York after her nearly three-decade absence from the States. Audiences were mostly receptive to Stein’s…

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#Alberta Williams #Barbara Shermund #Clifton Fadiman #Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein #E.B. White #Eve Symington #Fred Astaire #Gardner Rea #Garrett Price #George Price #Gertrude Stein #Ginger Rogers #John Mosher #Kewpie doll #Knickerbocker Village #Leonard Dove #Lois Long #Louise Brooks #Mary Petty #Otto Soglow #Peggy Bacon #Peter Arno #Rea Irvin #Robert Day #Rose O&039;Neill #Stuart Hay #The Gay Divorcee #William Cotton

[maleficea]

"We Americans, however, do not as a rule take gladly to the literature of gastronomy. Perhaps a native Puritanism is at fault. Though things are on the mend, we still plump ice cream into carbonic acid gas, rank steak and potatoes just below the Constitution, and contrive the cafeteria. How explain such things except as forms of self-punishment, stern reproofs to the rampant flesh? And, by the same token, to judge from its small audience, we must feel something vaguely licentious or censorable about the literature of food."

Clifton Fadiman, Introduction to The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher

#food #food writing #gastronomy #clifton fadiman #mfk fisher #quotes #on food

[akizuke]

building a lil library of books i genuinely love and would reread - so far it consists of The World Of The Short Story edited by Clifton Fadiman, Dune by Frank Herbert, And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave, The Wheel of Love and Other Stories by Joyce Carol Oates, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The Ruins by Scott Smith, The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis, Tampa by Alissa Nutting, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, Vampires in The Lemon Grove by Karen Russel, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Money by Martin Amis, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Well of Loneliness by Radcylffe Hall, Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite, Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, Gutshot by Amelia Gray, The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt, Junky by William Burroughs, Hyperion by Dan Simmons, and The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

#sakizuke #just wanted to make a list of my books

[katz2013love]

Something I learned in high school

“By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man/person but I knew how to try to become one.” – Clifton Fadiman In high school, I learned that I can be independent and I can take care of myself by making choices that reflect forward movement for me. In high school I learned that while I may have also been bullied; other people who were also bullied reached out and wanted to be my…

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#whatIlearnedinhighschool #dailyprompt #dailyprompt-1905