Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midst of a fray of adequate imitation Elizabethan costumes, topped off by sundry apple hats, Fred Barton's Launce cuts the incongruous figure of a country bumpkin crossed with a New England preppie. Attired in billowy corduroy knickers and some kind of felt pot pulled over his wire-rimmed spectacles, he lopes through his role with slack-mouthed, loose-limbed, knock-kneed charm. His throaty voice and lascivious gestures make "Pearls" one of the funniest song and mimes in the show. Launce and his fellow servant Speed (Jonathan Alex Prince) run through some congenial duets...
...Europe. Here the jingoistic, "big-stick" aspect of Roosevelt's personality obscured through most of the show, becomes clear. Unable to sit quietly in his old age and act the part of an elder statesman, T.R. rounds up a volunteer regiment and offers to lead them into the fray, an offer promptly refused by President Wilson. Still, all four sons serve courageously, with the youngest, Quentin, flying for the air corps, and the blustery old roughrider shouts a rousing "bully" at the news of every medal they receive. The fervor of war incites stirring memories of the heroic charge...
...Many Roman Catholic nuns and priests and Methodist ministers, members of five religious organizations that had bought shares of Stevens stock in order to have a voice, expressed concern about the company's labor policies. Old civil rights activists banded together as Southerners for Economic Justice joined the fray. Said Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., to Stevens Chairman James D. Finley: "I come before you as an American intolerant of injustice...
...Macaulay, that all countries must finally change. Just then his young wife Margaret entered the room, fresh and smiling from a walk in the sunlight. With her at his side and with Friend Jimmy Carter's exhortations ringing in his ears, Pierre Elliott Trudeau headed back into the fray...
...black students group decided to bring the University into the fray Thursday morning, when they filed a 500-signature petition with Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, condemning the Lampoon for "racially offensive" material and asking the University to take a position on the controversy, and to consider banning the magazine on campus...