Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Military Jujitsu. Professional patriots have always been fair game for satire but few books have ever given them a lustier Bronx cheer than Joseph Heller's sprawling, farcical Catch-22. Yossarian, the Air Corps bombardier who doesn't want to fly any more missions for the mordantly sane reason that he might get killed, is a comic creation that has already become something of a classic. In typical black-humor fashion, Yossarinan's real adversary is nothing less than the whole mad, mucked-up system, the jujitsu with which the bombardier repeatedly sets the system...
...Toner gives the Ragpicker extraordinary fire in his mock defense, in fact a satirical indictment, of the oil seekers, and Earl Montgomery as the president scowls and plots so vilely that we are ready to cheer with the inhabitants of Chailot when he and his fellow conspirators are destroyed. Lynn Milgrim and Paul Schmidt make attractively childlike lovers, whose only reason for being in the play is to love each other. Everyone, down to the flowers-girl and the doorman, performs with grace...
...nowadays play once a week at New York's London Terrace Chess Club. "Breathing is my prime occupation," he declares with a twinkle. "I am a respirateur." He is content to be a wry and impish commentator, and from his septuagenarian's viewpoint, he sees much to cheer...
...identity is in progress. But it is a disappointing search. Sylvia's identity is not very interesting, even to herself. Another hundred pages of collisions and rebuffs is got through before Sylvia (her identity evidently found) shrugs and decides to move out. The reader feels like giving a cheer...
Undergraduate Athletic Council, President; Hockey, Varsity, Freshman; Freshman Baseball; Cheer-leader; Owl Club, Treasurer; Hasty Pudding; Winthrop House Intramural Athletics...