Word: barts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What do Y. A. Tittle, Bart Starr, Joe Willie Namath, Fran Tarkenton, Babe Parilli, George Blanda and Charlie Conerly all have in common? They all are, or were, masterly pro quarterbacks...
...second act is better. Something happens in it. The landlady (Miss Lenya) decides not to marry her Jewish tenant (Mr. Gilford) because of the climate of anti-Semitism. The cabaret girl (Miss Haworth) refuses to leave Germany with the American writer (Bart Convy) and, thinking their relationship at an end, gets an abortion. There follows a melodramatic confession scene in which Miss Haworth broadly hints at what she has done, but scrupulously avoids the word for it. Mr. Convy zips off to Paris, Miss Haworth goes back to work, and Hitler comes to power, with all that that entails...
...Norman Charles Evelyn Light-wood, Bart., the writer of this "letter," is an English baronet of vaguely indefinite parentage and vaguely indefinite gender. His sexual hang-ups are presumably traceable to experience gained in his mother's bed. His illegitimacy is traceable to his uncle's having had a similar encounter with the good Lady. All this leads one to wonder whether this over-used four-poster might have been the cause of Norman's sister's difficulties as well. She is a lesbian who, dressed as the man she always wanted to be, gains a high post...
...BART: Look, Grant saved the Union didn't he, and they named a whiskey after him. But, my prime concern is our hard-drinking, draft-dodging college youth. I want to assure them that they are doing their part sipping Bourbon while the soldiers do the fighting. After all, each drink pays for another bullet. And we'll underscore their contribution by urging them to drink by the jigger and "Have a shot...
...Bart, that's one of the most inspiring war slogans since "My country right or wrong." I don't know what it will do for the morale of the boys on the front, but here at home it sounds like a splendid little...