Word: confect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merely spawned a theatrical bureaucracy of so-so actors and so-so directors who are not above displaying a sly slapdash contempt for their so-so audiences. The rank mediocrity of most resident companies has been camouflaged by some New York drama critics, who put down Broadway commercialism and confect gorgeous fictions about the distinguished dramatic art and high esthetic integrity that they have discovered in Nome, Keokuk and the lower Gaspé Peninsula...
Fortunately, Verdon, 41, seldom had to confect family meals, which are usually prepared in a separate second-floor kitchen by Mrs. Zephyr Wright, the Johnson cook for 23 years. At $ 10,000 a year, he was hardly overpaid-but then how many chefs can boast that they slept in the White House for nearly five years? René's reign was not seriously threatened until last October, when Mrs. Mary Kaltman, an old family friend and a veteran director of foods at such epicurean establishments as Harlingen Air Force Base and Austin's Driskill Hotel-whose manager describes...
...Girl Who Came to Supper will make the average theatrical gourmet yearn for the company of the late Monty Woolley. Even in his grave, George S. Kaufman could think up funnier lines than Harry Kurnitz has been able to confect for this musical adaptation of Terence Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince. And Noel Coward could have given Supper some Noel Coward songs, instead of the badly toasted marshmelodies he actually provided for it. This part of Broadway can legitimately be declared a disaster area, except for those involuntary rescue squads, the theater parties, which will keep the show green...