Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holbrook, who has crisscrossed the U.S. and Europe in this one-man show, brings it to Broadway with much fresh material culled from Twain's writings. The casual format is that of one of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures when he was 70. The props are simple: a lectern, a Victorian chair, a pitcher of water, an omnipresent cigar from which Holbrook fires volleys of smoke like a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside his thunderbolts for cheroots...
...Democrats under Doherty are also suffering from their failure to offer the public fresh, young candidates. Next year, for example, they will be offering such old party workhorses as Endicott Peabody '42, Edward J. McCormack, Francis X. Bellotti, and Foster Furcolo. All were defeated in their last bids for public office, and some of them have lost more elections than they've won. In addition, such hacks as Francis E. Kelley ("a lightbulb for every housewife") and Pasquale Caggiano ("I been robbed") will undoubtedly decide to run for something and discredit their party still further...
...English proto-romantic artist George Stubbs. Then, after his marriage in 1948 to Rachel Lambert (whom he calls "Bunny"), he began exchanging such horsy enthusiasms for the vivacious vegetation of the French impressionist painters across the Channel. "Like the name of the style," he explains, "there is an ever-fresh impression of seeing...
...frame of mind of the Roman Catholic Church-its fresh awareness of living in a pluralistic world and its strengthened commitment to the liberty of man's conscience-is softening its historic opposition to easier civil divorce laws. In New York, the state legislature is about to enact, with Catholic acquiescence, the first reform bill since the 1787 passage of a statute that permits divorce only on grounds of adultery. Speaking through their Albany lobbyist, Charles Tobin Jr., New York's bishops made it clear that they would not use their spiritual authority to influence the votes...
...Twain's Hawaiian letters have previously been issued only in limited editions. Now Professor A. Grove Day of the University of Hawaii has prepared the first edition of the Letters for broader publication. The book offers nothing that is not already known about Hawaii, but it provides a fresh, funny portrait of Mark Twain as a young...