Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wesker's chip is on his shoulder, and in heavier hands his play might have been doctrinaire agitprop-wash. It escapes that dreary fate, thanks to the playwright's good humor, dramatic interplay and irony, together with Director John Dexter's drillmasterly pacing. It is, in its own lingo, a scorching fine evening of theater...
That Certain Feeling. As for Morgenthau's "vendetta," it all went back a dozen years or so, Cohn explained, when he was investigating charges of Communist spy infiltration into the Treasury Department. In the 1940s, Cohn recalled, Communist Helper Harry Dexter White was working in the Treasury, and Robert Morgenthau's father Henry was Treasury Secretary. "I have no personal malice toward Morgenthau senior," added Cohn charitably, "but Morgenthau junior has harbored a feeling about this...
Charges of Boondoggling. Power men have long dreamed of putting the great "Quoddy" to work. In 1919 a Boston engineer named Dexter Parshall Cooper drew up a plan that would require an estimated $150 million in private capital. That idea collapsed with the 1929 market crash. Then in 1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt-best known summer visitor to neighboring Campobello Island-started boosting the Quoddy and actually got $7,000,000 from Congress to start the project. But F.D.R.'s hopes died too, amid Republican charges of "boondoggling on the Quoddy." Two years ago a U.S.Canadian International Joint Commission completed...
...England in the Test Match with Australia. Tradition got additional body blows when Hutton and another Player were knighted by the Queen. Recently the gap between cricketers has become increasingly absurd, as it developed that Gentlemen were making more money out of the game than were the Players. Ted Dexter, currently leading England in the Test series against Australia, is an amateur who rakes in the cash by appearing in testimonial ads for a shirt company, writing sports articles for the London Observer, and receiving royalties on the sale of cricket bats bearing his signature. This anachronistic citadel of privilege...
From his infancy, young Dexter Grabgrind '62 cultivated the art of evading solicitors. At the age of three, he escaped a Girl Scout selling cookies by showing her a box that his uncle had given him the previous year. By his eleventh birthday, he had contributed 54 buttons to the collection plate in the church of his choice...