Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show its shape is the L formed by a scarred desk and a well-worn couch. Behind the desk, Jack is barricaded; the couch supports a "panel" of regular or irregular conversationalists. Says Paar: "The show is nothing. Just me and people talking. Historic naturalness. We don't act, we just defend ourselves...
...misstatement made by Elsa Maxwell on the show, Paar counterpunched fiercely, guessed-on the air-that Winchell's "high, hysterical voice" results from his "too-tight underwear." Often, Paar punches with less provocation -massive retaliation, as one of his former writers puts it-for no act of aggression. When Perfectionist Paar berates stagehands ("the tippytoe squad") for being slow, his writers for providing dull jokes, the studio audience for not laughing, it is all done in fun-but there is a serious, waspish edge in the laughter...
...Federal Reserve Board joined the ranks of the worriers. Noting that customer credit had increased by $746 million in the first half of the year, it raised margin requirements (i.e., the minimum cash payment required on stock purchases) from 50% to 70%. While the Fed thought its action would act as a damper on speculation, changes in margins have usually had almost no effect on the market (see chart). After a brief dip last week, the market closed the week at 510.13, only 11 points under the alltime bull market top. Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston complained that...
Toper Into Craftsman. Impressed by so resplendent a prologue, poor Agnes felt let down when the curtain rose on Act I (a Village cocktail party), wherein Playwright Gene, studiously ignoring her, sprang half soused upon a chair and turned back the hands of a mantel clock, crying tragically: "Turn back the universe/ And give me yesterday!" Another time, he poured out a hate-filled tirade "in language that he had learned at sea and in the dives of the waterfront...
...becoming O'Neill's wife (as she did soon afterwards), Agnes automatically became his leading lady as well. Their joint act swung endlessly between tragical melodrama and slapstick farce, was happiest and steadiest whenever they left Greenwich Village behind and settled in Provincetown or New Jersey. Then O'Neill would shed the trembling toper and turn into the contented craftsman, in bed by 11 every night, at work sharp at 9 in the morning. He so hated to be interrupted in his work that he would hide in a closet when company came...