Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tragedy by George Staples, shows serious thought, solid dramatic potential, and a great debt to Long Day's Journey Into Night. Although the cast often does not reach potential depths of character, both Ed Walsh, as the younger son who revolts, and Yvonne Korshak, as the aging but eager aunt, bring excellent consistent emotion into earnestly wrought characterizations. After her beautifully timed hula dance during dinner, the high point of the play, the stage suffers from loose writing and looser pacing. Director Lumbard lacked the experience to build through to the end; his staging was often too static and hesitant...
...there was a gala independence ball in the marbled hall of the new Statehouse, where the Negro Prime Minister of Ghana, after assiduous practice beforehand, held the aunt of the Queen of England in his arms and danced a brief but sprightly pas de deux to the tune of Gotta Be This or That...
...began to cry. As for the organ ? "It was the Mighty Wurlitzer itself to me." De spite his interest in the neighbor's piano, the Bernsteins never had a musical instrument in the house until Lennie was ten. Then they were saddled with a "brown upright horror" that Aunt Clara wanted to get rid of. To Lennie it sounded like a seraph's harp. His reluctant parents ? who really hoped he might go into the beauty- parlor-supply business ? allowed him to have piano lessons...
...myth of robber barons engaged in snatching bread from the mouths of the poor was in the back of many a muddled head. Now, it seems, there is a new and very different thing to worry about. The capitalist robber baron has turned out to be a love-starved aunt cramming cake into eager little mouths. The middle class, instead of disappearing, has waxed fat and happy...
...relationship with the newspaper. As a boy he decided he did not like its Sunday comics and demanded-unsuccessfully-that J.R. fire the managing editor. During his school years he had sometimes worked summers and weekends at the Tribune, at one time conducted a children's column called "Aunt Elsie." One of his efforts began: "Heidie-ho, kiddies, this is Billy Knowland with another story." Now, however, his duties were vague. He put in some time on the Tribune's business side, helped streamline the logotype-and feverishly pursued his political career...