Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each doing what he knows best. Apple Grower George Wardlaw sculpts and paints apples-green, delicious, crab, rotten and otherwise; ex-Mink Farmer Joseph Kurhajec makes fetishes of ferocity from blowtorched sheepskin, muskrat pelts, ram horns and chicken feathers; Rugmaker Dorothy Grebenak hand-weaves tapestries of U.S. Treasury bills, Con Edison manhole covers, even a nubby facsimile of a Gordon's gin label. Through...
...Loves an Albatross, for the audience begins to realize just how pathetic Preston is. His friends all deliver homilies to the effect that honesty is the best policy; his secretary (she loves him and he wants her) turns her back on him. To Preston, though, life is a floating con game, and he dupes another producer (through means so far-fetched you wouldn't believe it) and wangles another lucrative contract...
...Con men rely heavily on "respectful disagreement"-tantalizing the professor who pines for ardent student protest. Really daring grade grubbers go much farther. "If his poli-sci prof is an outspoken liberal," says one Yaleman, "the imaginative con man adopts a fascist interpretation in his classwork. Since most profs like to compare themselves to Voltaire, they will give the Jittie fascist every benefit of the doubt...
Exam time gives the con man his last chance-and perhaps the best instructions on how to seize it came from David Littlejohn, who last year was a Harvard teaching fellow, and is now an assistant professor of English at Stanford. Littlejohn set out to rebut an annual Harvard Crimson piece on how to fool the grader on exams by "use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption...
...brash, breezy con man of a rainmaker (Robert Morton) appears on the scene. The clouds are recalcitrant, but the rainmaker opens the heavens for Lizzie and the gentle symbolic rain of romance quickens...