Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is put together as precisely as a fine watch by the jeweler of U.S. musicomedy jokesmiths, Abe Burrows. As the up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse is the funniest ploy-boy in the history of officemanship...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert; music and lyrics by Frank Loesser) is a light, bright spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative, tousle-haired, triple-jointed comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mt. Rushmore...
...Succeed succeeds chiefly by its light touch. Abe Burrows might have tossed satiric vitriol at the corporate image; instead, he paints a mustache on it. Bob Fosse might have whipped the dance chorus into the routine cattle stampede; instead, he stop-motions his dancers like mannequins in a shopwindow, and scatters them like parched, tormented acolytes around the ritualistic idol of an empty coffee machine in Coffee Break. Rudy Vallee cups his hands, megaphone-fashion, around collegiate Grand Old Ivy to give it just the kiss of the hops from Stein Song days, and the rest is a delectable kiss...
...Normandy in July 1944. From the start, Abrams showed the feel and flair of the born combat man. As General George Patton's Third Army led the conquering sweep across Europe, the 4th Armored Division led the Third Army, the 37th Tank Battalion led the 4th Armored-and Abe Abrams led the 37th. Leaning out of his Sherman tank, he chomped on a huge cigar and rallied his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams...
...Third Army, Abrams was frequently cut off. "They've got us surrounded again," he once said, "those poor bastards." Said General George Patton of his aggressive tank commander: "I'm supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army, but I have one peer-Abe Abrams. He's the world champion...