Word: bess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Floyd's score isn't too individual. The ranch hands' trio breaks up verbal rhythms rather in the manner of The Rake's Progress, and the music also includes several hints of jazz, which generally end up sounding like the dull parts of Porgy and Bess. Most of the score, though, is unabashedly dramatic, or at least would like to be. Lacking Puccini's capacity for soaring anguish, Floyd can't pull his listeners out of themselves by their own heartstrings. Once the poisonous mediocrity of his characters' lives becomes vivid, one begins to long for relief from...
...hope that Bess never has to read that book, because a glance at the joltings showed that many persons used its availability to put on record the anti-bombing sentiments they were nowhere else allowed to express. "Hiroshima=Hanoi" and "Nixon, would you let this happen to Tricia?" are only two samples of the vitriol...
...programs are skillfully written, paced and plotted. Each one is a mirror of small-town life and conversation. Then remembered gems begin to appear. Sheer delight-like the first time Vic refers to Sade as "Dr. Streech." Or when Vic comments on a letter from Sade's sister Bess...
Back in civilian life, Truman married his childhood sweetheart, Bess Wallace, and invested his life savings of $15,000 in a haberdashery shop in Kansas City, Mo. He prospered briefly, then went broke during the depression of 1922, but proudly paid back all his creditors, although it took years to do so. His political career began when the brother of Kansas City's Boss Thomas Pendergast walked into the failing store, leaned an elbow on the counter, and asked whether Truman would be interested in running for county judge in Jackson County-which includes Kansas City. The offer...
Manure. Always an earthy talker, Truman once offended a friend of his wife's by referring repeatedly to "the good manure" that must have been used to nurture the fine blossoms at a Washington horticulture show. "Bess, couldn't you get the President to say 'fertilizer'?" the woman complained. Replied Mrs. Truman: "Heavens, no. It took me 25 years to get him to say 'manure.' " When confronted by a press conference question he did not care to answer, Truman did not hesitate to say "no comment" or, more pointedly, "That's none...