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...Neill and Bertolt Brecht. When off-Broadway's greatly gifted Jose Quintero directed The Iceman Cometh, in May 1956, O'Neill's reputation was dormant. The remarkable six-year run of The Threepenny Opera at the Theater de Lys helped to detonate a Brecht boomlet that is finally exploding on Broadway with the March arrival of Brecht's best play, Mother Courage...
...Party to register as an arm of the Soviet Union. Now under indictment for failing to do so, the party leaders are merrily raking over what Gus Hall calls "this monstrous law," which, he insists, "actually provides for concentration camps." Why do students listen? Hall hopefully attributes the Red boomlet to student interest in hearing what a live Communist actually says as compared with what the new far-rightists say he says. More exactly, U.S. collegians are more curious about everything political-and the Communists are splendid teachers. One University of Minnesota official reported after Ben Davis' appearance: "They...
...notoriously conservative in choosing their business clothes have decided that the shapka is acceptable, even somewhat sophisticated. More and more men are wearing them downtown-in Washington, Chicago, New York and Boston. Eager to keep the boomlet going, importers and U.S. manufacturers are supplying a variety of styles, mostly in greys, blacks and browns, that range in price from $85 for a karakul number to $3.95 for a bargain-basement ersatz fur. Following their own mysterious impulses, women also seemed to have got that Slavic feeling: the most conspicuous new hat style on female heads this winter has been...
...earned the speakership." When a speakership boomlet puffed up for Democratic Whip Carl Albert of Oklahoma, Albert assured McCormack that he was not a rival...
...Goldwater brand of politics proved surprisingly popular, especially back home. Running for re-election in 1958 against Democrat McFarland, Goldwater breezed in by a comfortable 35,000 votes and, in a generally disastrous Republican year, returned to Washington as the fair-haired boy of U.S. conservatism. Inevitably, a boomlet began for a Goldwater place on the 1960 Republican national ticket-and Barry did little to stunt its growth. "If I were offered the vice-presidential spot on the ticket," he told newsmen at a 1959 press conference in Columbus, Ohio, "I'd have to have marijuana in my veins...