Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRTHDAY PARTY is nine years old and Harold Pinter's first full-length play. On Broadway for the first time, it is as highly individualistic, if not as technically poised, as his later works. The playwright cuts through the conventions of accepted stage behavior and the rules of the well-made play to expose the cruel and the comic, the frighteningly familiar and the terrifyingly unknown in each man's existence...
...life in government and the other half "in peace." He made that goal with almost seven years to spare before he died last week of a coronary occlusion, 64 years to the week from his first appearance in Congress. Uvalde, which was planning Cactus Jack's 99th birthday celebration, sorrowfully buried him in the Garner family plot...
...there too-meaning in this case not Elizabeth Taylor, 35, though she stood smilingly at hand, but Burton's ten-year-old daughter Kate, elder of his two children by ex-wife Sybil. In honor of the several momentous occasions occurring simultaneously-it was Burton's 42nd birthday, as well as his first trip to U.S. shores in two years-young Kate pulled out all the hostessy stops, taking her father and stepmother to a matinee performance of Maine and, after a dinner break, shepherding them to I Do! I Do! in the evening...
...himself spent the day in seclusion with his family, explaining that a Chinese birthday celebration also marks the solemn mu nan chih jih, or "day of a mother's suffering through childbirth...
Every year Chiang Kai-shek decrees that there be no official observation of his birthday. Every year the Formosans disobey. This year, for the Gimo's 81st, dragon and lion dancers pranced through the streets of Taipei, and a delegation of 3,000 overseas Chinese presented gilt scrolls enumerating their achievements of the past year. Nationalist Vice President Chia-kan Yen proclaimed that Chiang's "achievements in the promotion of nationalism, democracy and the people's livelihood have made him the No. 1 man in the world...