Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good God. In the age of Beckett and Ionesco. Bill Saroyan's zaniness seems almost conservative. The new play has a bank clerk named Sam Harkaharkalark, a bank president named Mr. Horniman, and a succession of other Saroyantic types who deposit both cash and wisdom. Among them: a stripper named Daisy Dimple, a blind man who doubles as "squopper'' or tragic chorus, a gypsy who spouts Greek that translates into Saroyanese. ("All is not all. How could it ever be?" ) Also in the cast of characters: a girl who is having a baby by an American named...
...cast were almost convinced that Sam is about a bank robbery in which the take includes 500,000 defective pound notes. (A Bank of England cashier named G. O. Dodd has signed them "Good God" by error.) Sam is accused and fired. A priest gets hold of the cash and distributes it to unwed pregnant women who "promise to stop it." Sam develops "delusions of grandeur, paranoia and schizophrenia." and decides that he is the world's greatest high jumper. Understandably. Saroyan suggests that "any reality must come from the beholder. After all, a madman's fantasies...
...help of husband Henry, she kept the business under family control by financing growth out of earnings, which will reach an estimated $1,250,000 this year. In 1947 they built a modern bakery in Norwalk, floated $450,000 worth of preferred stock (since retired) to get the cash. Maggie Rudkin shrewdly sent representatives to medical conventions, played up her bread's healthful qualities...
Under the impact of the sudden influx of cash, the Hong Kong market has surged upward in the past three months, now averages a $1,000,000-a-day turnover, more than three times the preboom volume...
...into double negatives when excited. Sample, on religion: "I think there is no religious revival at all. Fra Angelico kneeled to the Madonna because he was going to paint her, and she was his God. We don't kneel down to nothing any more, not even to a cash register...