Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Captain Jack (Andreas Teuber) is less convincing. He has all of the pay-cock's swagger, color, and noise--and just a bit too much of this last: do all Irishmen shout quite as much as the ones on the Loeb stage?--but he has so little of the necessary humor. He probably shouts simply to obscure his brogue which is obscure, but my goodness, man, that's no way to tell a joke. Kenneth Tigar shouts his jokes too, but that's because he realizes they are all basically the same joke (he is asked to call everything "Darlin...
...Sarah Lawrence has eliminated status. All faculty members are teachers--there is no professional hierarchy, no political cock-fight for tenure The community recognizes no distinction of age, clubs, or academic discipline--indeed there are no clubs, and "field of concentration" is a definition only loosely applied. And above all, Sarah Lawrence has dispensed with the currency of college life: there are no grades...
...complete surprise to the citizens of Cambridge," growled Vellucci. "Rudolph comes up with this cock-eyed plan to remove snow off main thoroughfares. He should have tackled the snow problem last summer." Vellucci added that he didn't want his constituents fined...
...criminal-hero marked for destruction is a tight-lipped swaggering cock of the prison walk named Johnny Bannion (Stanley Baker). Even Chief Warder Barrows (Patrick Magee) caters to Bannion. Indeed, Losey's knowing development of the prison's internal and external linkup of influence peddling helps to strengthen his portrait of the criminal's hermetically sealed environment...
...York Herald Tribune (and 130 other papers) Columnist Art Buchwald was going home soon. From 3,000 miles across the Atlantic, Columnist Drew Pearson told an inside-out story: Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, still smarting at the loss of Subscriber John F. Kennedy (TIME, June 8), planned to cock Buchwald like a cannon straight at the Administration. Pearson was wrong. "I made my decision to go to Washington before the White House canceled the subscriptions," said Buchwald. "In fact, I understood one of my duties was going to be to deliver the paper to the White House...