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...score much of a help, Lyricist Lee Adams and composer Charles Strouse did Bye Bye Birdie and Golden Boy, both of which realized more talent than Superman hints at. Even the notions behind the numbers are uniformly uninspired. "Doing Good," "We Need Him," and "The Strongest Man in the World" are poor ideas gone nowhere...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: SUPERMAN! | 4/21/1966 | See Source »

...promotion for sponsors. Cousin Brucie ("I really believe everyone's my cousin") Morrow, 31, top rock jockey for Manhattan's WABC, has formed a "Cousin Brucie's Pillow Talk Club" for the station's 20,000 sub-teen listeners who go beddie-bye with their transistor radios. "They're my little itty-bitty ones," drools Brucie. "Kids used to go to bed with teddy bears," he says. "Now they go to bed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: The Nubes | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

Harvard received a bye in the first round. The only winner for Harvard was sophomore Jose Gonzalez, who survived a late surge for Bill Wilson to win the number two match, 15-11, 16-15, 10-15, 16-13. Captain Dinny Adams, still weak from the flu and his rugged Princeton victory tired in his match against John Davis, succombing in five games...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Crimson Squash Team Defeated 4-1 By Washington in National Tourney | 2/12/1966 | See Source »

Criss has destroyed the second act by inexplicably cutting out the drama's most touching moment, Bill Walker's gruffly affectionate good-bye to Barbara and Barbara's subsequent plea to Peter Shirley, an old worker, for moral support. Because these moments have been thrown away, two characters are left half-created and Shaw's irony is lost...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: Major Barbara | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...beset by urban blight. Part of what was wrong was the audience itself-too old, too prosperous, too complacent to be bothered about the basics of the human dilemma. These playgoers and, to a degree, the daily New York critics who reflect their likes and dislikes, demand beddy-bye stories for grownups-the Theater of Reassurance. This is the audience that barely kept alive the season's best serious new play, John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence, a scathing indictment of the opiates of the middle class, notably sex, told in Osborne's splenetic, scornful, grieving, whining, raging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE YEARS BEST, OR, THERE IS ROOM AT THE TOP | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

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