Word: clownish
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Died. Herb Sheldon, 51, impresario of radio and TV kiddie shows, who forswore the clownish costumes and childish twaddle of his colleagues, instead gave pre-teen audiences the scoop about building muscles (spinach helps), crossing streets and watching too much TV, becoming one of NBC's highest-paid stars at $250,000 a year in the 1950s; of a heart attack; in Manhasset...
...whom things happened, the Chekhov hero and heroine are people to whom nothing happens. His Sisters exist in a sad purgatory of might-have-beens and never-will-bes. Masha (Kim Stanley), married at 18 to a bureaucratic clod, alternately tongue-lashes him as a clownish bore and lapses broodily into tears. Irina (Shirley Knight) has made a hysterical religion of work. Olga (Geraldine Page) is a kind of involuntary nun of duty, serving joylessly as the local school headmistress. The cultured, well-educated sisters are too weak to demand life on their own terms, too proud...
...heavyweight championship. But in his story, Sportswriter Charles Parmiter seriously raised that possibility, although most people, including many of our readers, dismissed Clay as a loudmouthed clown. As Parmiter points out in this week's story on the Liston-Clay fight (see SPORT), Cassius is still loudmouthed and clownish-but more than that as well...
Melancholiacs may get a lift from the clownish affenpinscher, a tiny cross between a terrier and a Pekingese, whose funny face is wreathed in a perpetual smile. Nonconformists will appreciate a Rhodesian ridgeback, an African lion dog that must be patted from tail to head because his fur grows that way. Heavy drinkers might find use for a puli, a shaggy sheepherder famed for its ability to guide strays back into the fold. And antique collectors will want the world's oldest dog, the saluki, which appears in Sumerian carvings as early as 6000 B.C. The Arabs call...
...will find neither. All the grandeurs and miseries of life between nine and 15 are experienced by Caroline's heroine-Antonia Rutherford ("Buddersmud" to her coevals). All the savagery of child civilization boils about the muddy asphalt and precipitous stone stairs of the London primary school. Derision and clownish aggression is the prechivalric code between the nonsexes. There are friendships of Byronic intensity and power alliances of Renaissance intricacy. The tormented teaching staff is examined through a child's merciless eye for dandruff, horse teeth, injustice and facial tics. One of them (the one with the horse teeth...