Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Jim Jordan, 64, radio's Fibber McGee, for 21 years (1935-56) the incorrigible comic blowhard of 79 Wistful Vista; and Mrs. Gretchen Stewart, 52, widow of Dialect Comedian Yogi Yorgenson; both for the second time (Jordan's first wife Marian, who was also Fibber McGee's Molly, died last year after 43 years of marriage); in Honolulu...
Racial self-consciousness is a step backwards in American theater. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1948) took an obviously Jewish figure in Willy Loman (dialect, family relations, and the rivalry with the neighbors' son suggest a Jewish background), but expanded the character, rather than caricaturing him, concentrating on the universal qualities rather than the special heritage of the hero. To succeed in 1961 (without really trying), Miller's play would have to end with Biff and Happy going off to work on a Kibbutz...
...gahl) was born 51 years ago in a palm-frond hut in rice-growing Pampanga province, north of Manila. His first name means "God-given" in Spanish. His mother was a devout Roman Catholic who taught catechism to schoolchildren, and his father wrote poetry in the local dialect. Since poets do no better financially in the Philippines than anywhere else, Diosdado Macapagal's family was often hungry...
...months, is switching its strategy from isolated guerrilla raids to full-scale warfare aimed at "liberating" the country, region by region. A major disadvantage faced by Diem's 160,000-man army is that Viet Cong rebels, who mostly come from South Viet Nam and speak the local dialect, have won widespread support among the villagers...
...Fall, the reader is introduced to Charles Peacock, an accountant whose only distinction is that his brother is Shelmerdine Peacock, the famous Hollywood star. At the annual company dinner, Accountant Peacock tries desperately-and fails-to attract attention with his Negro-dialect reminiscences ("The last time I saw 1'il ole brudder Shel . . ."). Fortified with whisky, sherry, hock, Volnay and brandy, Peacock resorts at last to his only trick-demonstrating the "stage fall" that his brother had taught him. At the end of the party, his audience gone, Peacock falls flat a few more times for the benefit...