Word: caving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recording tapes, Cardinal Spellman left Manhattan to spend Christmas with the troops in Korea. Invited to make the holiday visit to the war zone by General James A. Van Fleet, the cardinal planned to arrive in time to say Christmas Mass "any place, even if it is in a cave. I'll be happier in Korea than any place else, even St. Patrick's Cathedral...
With this exposition out of the way in the first act, the authors are able to hit it from every angle. They go back into her former life twice, once to a stone cave and later to a Roman bordello. The dialogue is witty, and the characters are almost perfect: a confused critic as the lover, a comic secretary, a Helen Hokinson-like committee woman, a stuffy judge, and a refugee from The Cocktail Party. They are all played to the hilt...
...arms as if to move the grass out of the way. "We have to go through some tall grass," repeated the audience, and this reporter was soundly flailed in the process. There were more obstacles such as a small river, a big river, some trees, and the elephant's cave which were all surmounted with appropriate sounds and motions. Suddenly, with a pained cry, the intrepid hunter discovered the apocryphal elephant and went through the whole routine, backwards and in double time...
...homecoming. Up to now, they had been able to push their bandwagon on the strength of confidential hints and wise looks brought back from Ike's headquarters in Marly. But now, as New York Timesman. Arthur Krock put it, the Sphinx had come to the Cave of the Winds. As Ike was leaving the White House, a reporter asked: "Have you given anyone authority or a go-ahead to undertake any political activity in your behalf?" Ike stared at the reporter and snorted. Then his eyebrows went up and he exploded...
Something different is offered at the Cave, the Club Rio, the French Village, Showtime, and the Village Barn, as the names imply. For those fellas who like those fellas, there's always the College...