Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year's pay raise for federal employees-have ever been enacted into law after being forced out of a balky Rules Committee by a discharge petition. Still another route is the "Calendar Wednesday" procedure. On Wednesdays, a committee chairman can call a bill to the floor without the consent of the Rules Committee, but under conditions that make it possible for opponents to stall the bill to death. Last year Sam Rayburn used the Calendar Wednesday method to rescue a depressed-areas bill from Judge Smith's clutches, but that was the first time the device had been...
...imported. They are Rhinoceros, a farce-satire by perky Avant-Gardist Eugene lonesco; A Taste of Honey, a sort of earthy British lonely-hearts story; and the wonderfully pert French musical Irma La Douce. The domestic dramas include the tender, poetic family chronicle, All the Way Home; Advise and Consent, a tense political melodrama; and Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment, a lively but somehow disappointing comedy-lecture on marital success. Among the musicals: although it is currently fashionable to dismiss it, Camelot holds many treasures that make it worth seeing; Do Re Mi, a Runyonesque piece, is nearly salvaged...
...Hawaii, Michener (2)* 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (1) 3. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (4) 4. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (3) 5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (5) 6. The Dean's Watch, Goudge (6) 7. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (7) 8. Shadows in the Grass, Dinesen 9. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (9) 10. The Lovely Ambition, Chase...
...domestic dramas include two adaptations from novels, All the Way Home, which transmits much of the poetry and power of James Agee's A Death in the Family, and Advise and Consent, a brisk and tense political melodrama taken from the Allen Drury bestseller. Also of note: Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment, a lively comedy-lecture on marital success that is forced more often than forceful...
...Advise and Consent, Drury...