Word: boon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WESTPORT, CONN. Country Playhouse. Hans Conried plays a retired Connecticut Yankee chicken farmer who finds New York commuters both the boon and bane of his existence in Herman Shumlin's Spofford, a cut-down version of Peter De Vries' novel, Reuben, Reuben...
Tynan: Pornography seems to me a necessary and useful thing to have around as an adjunct to ordinary sex, and as an alternative to ordinary sex. I think it's a boon to the tired traveler -in a foreign country where he doesn't speak the language or doesn't know anybody. I think it's an absolute social necessity in the case of some people who are ugly and old and lonely, but that does not mean it should only be for the ugly, the old and the lonely. I do think that more good...
...rules. New Mexico's Senator Clinton P. Anderson, widely hailed as "the father of Medicare" for his legislative labors in its behalf, has introduced a bill that would allow hard-pressed states to reduce their commitments under the program without risking expulsion. That would certainly prove a great boon to many states. What it would do to the medically indigent remains to be seen...
...likelihood of clotting or circulatory problems, or diabetes. "I am one of what I would call the concerned physicians, simply pleading that the drug be used with a certain circumspection," said Dr. Lawrence. "But I wouldn't even try to deny that the Pill has been ? boon to millions of women." For all but the most fanatical opponents or proponents of the Pill, Dr. Lawrence's attitude seems the soundest...
...Broadway pornocrats have finally run into the law. Che! was shuttered by the police after the second night's performance, and the cast, production staff, director and playwright were charged with "consentual sodomy, public lewdness and obscenity." Should the show never reopen, it would be a boon to untold thousands...