Word: d
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ventured into the South last week, but his treatment of Wallace was more restrained than Humphrey's. Wallace, he said, "is against many things Americans are frustrated about; I'm against them too. That goes beyond saying, 'If someone lies down before a limousine I'd run him over.' Anybody who says that shouldn't be President." In fact, he told reporters, no man who talks that way "is even fit to be President." Nixon's crowds were uniformly large, but for the moment, it was Humphrey's campaign that seemed livelier...
...Shirley Temple Black had married Tyrone Power, she'd be Shirley Black Power...
...d call this a whiz-bang settlement," Sullivan said, adding that Radcliffe janitors are now the highest paid at any college in the country...
Forced to grope into theatrical history for an apt comparison, for a composer who was to the mainstream of Broadway music what Bacharach is to that mainstream now, I'd settle on Harold Arlen. Arlen too had a popular bent, wrote songs consciously and expressly for Negro singers, was by nature incapable of the straight, bright, terribly Broadway, Broadway tunes of which any second-rank Cole Porter creation is the perfect example, and on all these counts had to be regarded as an organism slightly foreign to the theatre (Mr. Arlen will of course forgive the laws of parallelism...
...should be said that (a) The Apartment is by no means a natural for the world of musical comedy; (b) His book is a good deal more entertaining than the average; (c) It will undoubtedly get a fairer shake from those who have not seen the movie; and (d) There is still time. The weeks remaining can probably best be used to replace Mr. Winter, who is mis-cast, and to cut or change a good deal of gratuitously cute dialogue (another example: "Hell hath no fury like a man who's lost his Wednesday nights...