Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ringmaster for the three-ring circus that surrounds Mr. Poston is George Abbott, who seems to have been directing this sort of play since long before nearly anybody was born. In his old age Mr. Abbott has grown permissive towards arm-waving and other forms of over-acting, but nobody can deny that he keeps things fairly lively. Among his hired hands, Paul Hartman is disappointing as the septuxorial playboy, but a tubby gent named John McGiver, playing the foggiest of Mr. Poston's employers, takes up some of the slack by being funny both drunk and sober...
Among the suits dismissed was that of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, who referred to Insull in Crisis of the Old Order, published last year as the first volume in his projected study, "The Age of Roosevelt...
What happened to make Toni feel that way? On a pleasant evening several weeks back, she had driven out to a nightclub with her dull but good-looking young man. Stan Walters, as described by his teen-age brother, is "the guy who goes through life and nothing happens because he keeps counting his change." On this night, really afraid of love behind his great-lover facade, Stan got hopelessly drunk. Toni, trying to get home alone, was forced into a stolen car by two young toughs, was raped, brutally beaten and thrown...
...time and society. Author Louis Kronenberger, TIME'S theater critic and an authority on 18th century Britain, knows that Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was one of the toughest, tetchiest, worldliest women of her time-but also that the time itself was one of treachery and double-dealing, an age in which England was "almost plagued with brilliance, and swollen with ambition." It was the era of Swift, Defoe, Newton, Wren, Pope -but it was equally an era of savage religious fanaticism, corruption and shameless nepotism (men, said Sarah, anticipating William Gilbert's Sir Joseph Porter, came...
...crying: "Shall I suffer the sword which my lord would have carried to the gates of Paris to be sent to the pawnbroker's and have the diamonds picked out one by one?" There are anecdotes of the ' stamina and courage that made her beloved in old age-as when she trudged determinedly in George II's Coronation procession and "seized a drum from a drummer and blithely sat down on it [to rest]." Once, when the doctor whispered to an assistant, "She must be blistered or she will die," he heard the 80-year-old matriarch...