Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told everybody to anticipate disaster, fiasco, failure." says Playwright William (The Time of Your Life) Saroyan of his new show. Its title: The London Comedy, or Sam the Highest Jumper of Them All. But as he races to get ready for opening night at London's experimental East End Theatre Royal April 5. the Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze is too busy to be bothered with his own ad monition. He is still trying to decide whether the cast should sing the first-act finale-he is, in fact, still writing his play...
...Poor Cecil seems not to realize that his wife is socially handicapped by a hint of Arab ancestry and an arty kid brother. The plot turns on Cecil's attempts to introduce his bride into the pukka colony (her first appearance on the tennis courts is a satiric fiasco) and his maneuvering for a promotion. There is taut melodrama involving the escape of a couple of interned Palestinian terrorists, who call Cecil "Spurgeon the Virgin" (possibly the reason why Author Griffin gave him this family name). At novel's end-complacently unaware of the tragic mess he caused...
...imminent demise of De Sapio is a welcome sign that the state Democratic Party is recovering from the Rockefeller fiasco. In the past two years, De Sapio has done more harm than good for the party, both on the national and local levels. While Mayor Wagner is not the most forceful of politicians, he at least will not be tainted with the label of "boss." And as De Sapio has been decidedly anti-liberal, New Yorkers can now expect to see a resurgence of the Lehman-Finletter-Roosevelt wing of the party. The moribund condition of Democratic politics...