Word: booths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about what the voting public might think-or do. At a press conference in Albany, he still argued that the divorce was a private affair. But when asked about its possible political repercussions, he said: "This is something that is up to every voter when he gets into the booth...
After Knowledge, What? Presumably, a citizenry well informed about the evils, strengths and tactics of Communism would be equipped to make itself felt in the voting booth, in letters to Congressmen, and other normal methods of political expression, on the specific issues of cold war policy-defense spending, foreign trade policy, foreign aid, atomic testing, fallout shelters, the role...
...other neighborhood immortals as Duddy Duddelson, Crazy Guggenham, and Fatso Fogarty), remembers Jackie as "a big hero in the neighborhood-because of the pool, and also because he was so funny. He had a slouchy mannerism, a duck-waddling walk." Gleason's mother worked in a subway change booth and had small regard for her son's comic talents, and when Jackie brought down the house with his clowning in the P.S. 73 eighth-grade graduation play, he shouted at her from the stage: "I told you. Mom! I told you!" His formal education ceased at that level...
...hero successively changes his name, testifies in a trial as an eyewitness to events he never saw, and later, on seduction bent, "enters" a girl's life by pretending he knew her dead brother. In the telling, everything is hemstitched with the heaviest of literary embroidery. (A telephone booth is "a slim, body-width oratory . . . a temple of self-abuse, saving synagogue of the air.") Once in a while there are a few glints of true gold. ("What we do not do persists, classic and perfect, beneath what we do. The final admixture is the judgment.") But the total...
...three-dimensional clichés with names like Widow Ruskin and Cousin Martin, played by actors steeped in basic quaintsmanship. From ABC's Margie (1920s flapper) to CBS's Father of the Bride, the other new sitchcoms come close to the icky standards of Ichabod. Actress Shirley Booth has been caught in an NBC series called Hazel, based on the Saturday Evening Post's cartoon maid. She place-kicks footballs and tweaks the ears of her boss's clients. The Joey Bishop Show (NBC) presents its deadpan comic star as a small-time flack...