Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WALKING HAPPY is an amiable amble through a Dickensian landscape breezily propelled by moving sets, spirited choreography, and a beguiling zephyr named Norman Wisdom who, as a "my fair laddie," is lifted out of the lower classes by his shoestrings...
...still dirty, the city's sources of new income meager, the ghettos wallowing in misery. What makes him different is that he really believes that something can be done about it -practically a political heresy in cynical New York City. Chipper and resilient at 45, even if his fair hair has greyed a bit along with his image, Lindsay is often accused of being a cross between Don Quixote and a spinsterish schoolmarm because of his sometimes rigid righteousness and such of his fancies as "the Athenian idealization of public service." Still, for all his high phrases and sometimes...
Army nudged out Harvard by two points in the track events, but the Crimson could manage only twelve points and one first place in the five field events. The bright spot was the weight throw where Ron Wilson won with an only fair heave of 58' 1 1/4", and Charlie Ajootian was third...
...Three, Irma La Douce, and Kiss Me, Stupid--the man's last three pictures--were characterized not so much by cynicism as by excess. In all things. Kiss Me, Stupid, unquestionably Wilder's worst, was so overplayed, overwritten and overdirected that it seemed fair to call it his Armageddon. But with the benefit of hindsight, one can see that beneath the roughage Wilder has been brewing a new style of comedy. And the brew has come to boil with The Fortune Cookie...
There is too much burlesquing by the women in the play, but as they do it well it isn't fair to carp. Denise Girouard as Mrs. Boef, wife of a rhinoceros, is the most skillful of the lot. She is a master of the tableau vivant, always finding the right arch of leg or arm to drag comedy out of stage direction. Sara Salisbury plays Daisy, the secretary in Berenger's office, and she looks like a secretary, which is some achievement in Cambridge. Miss Salisbury has the good sense not to overdo her girlishness and pucker-pout...