Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are long lines these days at the Sack Cheri theater, for the new English comedy The Wrong Box. Hordes are plunking down their two dollars gleefully for what has come to be known as "the new Peter Sellers movie." Except, of course, that it isn't. The Sellers name is advertised loudly enough, and Sellers is in the movie, but his appearance is limited to a quick six minutes...
...story begins with a group of twenty cherub-like English schoolboys listening to a headmaster explain the details of their tontine, a curious type of lottery wherein each of their fathers has contributed one thousand pounds to a fund whose entirety (with interest) will be awarded to whichever of the rosy cheeked lads lives longest...
...words are fewer, many are newer. It includes such current terms as the Yiddish chutzpa ("unmitigated effrontery or impudence"), ye-ye ("of, pertaining to, or characteristic of young sophisticates"), and even Mary Poppins' supercalifragilisticexpi-alidocious ("used as a nonsense word by children to represent the longest word in English...
Edward Albee can be trusted as a bartender, an unleasher of tirades of aggression, a put-down comedian, and a lover of English whose sentences curl with the involuted beauty of a sea shell, but when he puts on his thinking cap, he is a poseur. To embrace everyone is to be no one. A Delicate Balance is a wish for oblivion posing as a plea for love, and its fine cast and funny lines cannot hide its phony bones...
Kemelman, who teaches English at Boston's Massachusetts State College, is now savoring an unexpected triumph. A Yiddish-language newspaper has begun serializing his first book. This means that his 96-year-old mother, who reads no English', will at last be able to find out why the .rabbi slept late...