Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, with the aplomb of a carnival barker, they filled forms, parried salesmen, made dates--and disappointed everyone who had expected a sweaty confrontation between them and the newest Harvard stalwarts...
WRITER BY TRADE: A PORTRAIT OF ARNOLD BENNETT by Dudley Barker. 260 pages. Atheneum...
...French because it was in that language that he read him), Bennett became the first popular novelist of his time to tell of the actual lives of recognizable people in words that ordinary readers could understand. This was not a happy accident. Beneath the fop, as British Biographer Dudley Barker shows, was a dedicated and gifted literary craftsman. He wanted to write good books, and make money -in that order-and he forever respected and tried to improve his art. As a young writer, he set himself the task of producing 1,000 words a day, and for most...
Joan Tolentino gives Marie a depth-of-character the part needs. She sings, too. In the character roles, Andrew Weil and Dean Gitter are wonderful as the captain and the doctor respectively. Weil doubles as a circus barker and recites a double-talk speech about a performing horse, with all the necessary self-consciousness. Gitter makes the play's ending every bit as ghastly as it should...
They did not, in fact, when Burnice admitted in 1961 that during the more than 40 years that she had served as the bookkeeper in her father's bank she had embezzled $2,126,859.10 of their funds-more than John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Ma Barker and all her boys together stole at gunpoint from bank coffers in the '30s. Most of the money, it turned out, had gone into Burnice's unsuccessful speculations and investments...