Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oasis (1949), the least-known of her novels, took some pot-shots at Manhattan's leftist intellectuals, with whom she had broken in the late '30s as one of the renegade editors of the Partisan Review. The Groves of Academe, in 1952, renewed her public fame and represented the familiar, unillusioned satirist at her best, with its caricature of a progressive college (Miss McCarthy had taught at Bard and Sarah Lawrence). As with her last novel, A Charmed Life, readers tried to match the characters with real people in the McCarthy coterie--and not always without success...
...Lose Friends. At Ohio State, Ferguson is a C student in physical education. A quiet, reserved senior, he has lived off campus since his recent unpublicized marriage, has few pastimes other than roller skating and bid whist. Aware of the fame that only football could have brought him, he says: "Football has helped my life tremendously...
Kean (book by Peter Stone; lyrics and music by Robert Wright and George Forrest) casts Alfred Drake in the role of Edmund Kean, the early 19th century Shakespearean tragic actor of Drury Lane fame. The hero pursues a nightlong quest for identity, and the theatergoer may wonder why the case was not turned over to Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons. This lavishly mounted, richly costumed wide-stage dramarama is the most elaborate fiasco of the new theater season...
Died. Joan McCracken, 39, pixyish dancer and actress who rose from the obscurity of the precision-tooled Rockette chorus line to overnight fame by playing the awkward, out-of-step country girl Sylvie, "The Girl Who Falls Down,"' in Broadway's long-running Oklahoma!; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Pros. Many colleges even give scholarships to talented twirlers. And after that it is practice, practice, practice. The girls do not seem to mind all the grueling sacrifice that fame demands. It teaches them poise, keeps their figures neat, and, testifies one Georgia nymphette in a Dixie Cup drawl: "Ah thank the thang teaches us to thank...