Word: bumpkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simple Man, by Charles Dyer, locks a London floozy and a virginal Manchester clerk in a bedroom and then busily prevents them from going to bed. The play is stalemated between farce and pathos, but Tammy Grimes is a beguiling imp and Edward Woodward a touchingly vulnerable bumpkin. Mother Courage, by Bertolt Brecht. Anne Bancroft pulls her canteen wagon across the face of Europe during the Thirty Years' War and tragically loses her three children. Brecht's reflections on peace and war are deeply ironic, but Anne Bancroft lacks the depth for her part. Strange Interlude, by Eugene...
...Charles Dyer, locks a London floozy and a virginal Manchester clerk in a bedroom and then busily prevents them from going to bed. Stalemated between farce and pathos, the play does not go anywhere either, but Tammy Grimes is a beguiling imp and Edward Woodward a touchingly vulnerable bumpkin...
...London puts him within communicable range of the dread disease. Cyrenne is a nightclub tart with eyes as impersonal as jelly beans, and a tendency to strip to a small black egg-cup bra in the twinkling of a false eyelash. The question of the evening: Will the parochial bumpkin, who admits to being 35 and is really 42, lose his virginity to the big-city floozy...
...generally fine jobs by the major characters are matched by the excellence of the supporting players (Murray Forbes as Marlow's father is especially outstanding among these last). In addition to expressing the hope that that wonderful lump of a bumpkin Tony will stop shouting, I would add only that Hinkle's decision to cut the prologue is regrettable, since it is clever and to the point and that the program notwithstanding, (it refers to "Mr." Oliver Goldsmith), the gentleman was an M.D. Kirkland House has conquered me, and, my analyst assures me, I'm no stoop...
...political maneuver that might, in fact, make Nyerere stronger than ever, for he installed as new Prime Minister his own close ally, Rashidi Kawawa, 32, onetime movie star whose long sideburns and curling eyelashes won him fame and top billing in Swahili films, including one titled Country Bumpkin. During his acting career, Kawawa found time for a clerk's job in Tanganyika's civil service; later he moved into the trade union movement, became its boss, then in 1957, shifted into politics as a member of the colonial legislature. There was no doubt who would remain Tanganyika...