Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur Kopit chose a standard aspiration, one slightly more common than it is healthy: in Oh Dad, Poor Dad a father dies leaving Our Boy with millions, and presto, there is a pretty girl to pursue the active role in love-making. Our Boy can lean back and enjoy...
...Sing Muse" becomes the second Harvard play to receive a New York contract within the last two years. "Oh, Dad..!", by Arthur Kopit '59, will be presented next spring...
...strictly trad, dad...
Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (Buena Vista). Disney in the raw is seldom mild, but the Dad-why-can't-I-have-a-hunting-knife set doesn't mind. This incessantly violent, incessantly beautiful adaptation of James Oliver Curwood's Nomads of the North will delight every ten-year-old who ever wrestled his pillow and pretended it was a grizzly bear...
Other literary sons-John Phillips Marquand, Nathaniel Benchley, Klaus Mann -have tried with indifferent success to write like Dad. Auberon Waugh conies closer than any of them to pulling it off: at first glance, The Foxglove Saga could pass for a sequel to Decline and Fall. Like Evelyn's first novel, The Saga opens in an English boys' school and is a picaresque, loosely jointed account of several old school chums as they lurch through a succession of army camps, prisons, hospitals and asylums. The characters are often almost the same as in Decline and Fall...