Word: dairyman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike had proved largely unsuccessful, though a few dairies closed and milk disappeared from store shelves in Nashville altogether. While more farmers endorsed the strikers' aims, many disapproved of their methods and ignored threats of violence. "As long as there are people going hungry anywhere," protested Wisconsin Dairyman William Blank, "I don't think any food should be willfully destroyed." Moreover, about half of the milk produced nationwide normally goes into such byproducts as cheese, butter and ice cream, so that distributors with ample inventories were able to bottle all the fresh milk they needed to meet housewives...
With returns in from all but eight of California's 30,586 precincts, Conservative Reagan had 1,385,550 votes to 663,199 for Dairyman George Christopher, a moderate Republican and former mayor of San Francisco. The G.O.P.'s 2-to-l choice underscored the Democratic dogfight in which Brown got 1,334,286 votes v. 994,821 for his principal opponent, Los Angeles' Mayor Samuel Yorty, a feisty maverick who supported Richard Nixon in 1960 and calls Brown a "captive of left-wingers...
...actors who are always in control are Kaplan and Miss Archer. Kaplan's Wong has a strongly Yiddish flavor, much like Sholom Alcichem's dairyman Tevye before Broadway got to him. But the resemblance--the good humor in despair, the pleading with the marvelously impotent gods, the befuddled good intentions--is in Brecht's script as well as Kaplan's portrayal. Miss Archer has warmth, a versatile vocal range, the ability to switch swiftly between the two parts she must play, and good legs...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Sholom Aleichem's story of a Russian village in 1905 becomes a lively musical with Luther Adler as Tevye, a dairyman who has wit, compassion, and five daughters...
...arte garb and Brechtian notions, Joan Littlewood and her "thinking clowns" effectively depict the foolishness and ironies of the 1914-18 war. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is a nostalgic folk-musical version of Sholom Aleichem's tales of life in czarist Russia and Aleichem's gentle dairyman, Tevye, brought to life by Zero Mostel's larger-than-life interpretation...