Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this novel. The universe here is the biggest of all big tops. Mercier and Camier are unwilling clowns in a performance they do not under stand. They are saddled with props - a reluctant umbrella, a sack, a raincoat and a bicycle - and trip helplessly into Alphonse-Gaston stage routines. They are the butt of exquisitely timed mal functions. Their umbrella refuses to open just as the rain, "acting on behalf of the universal malignity," comes down in buckets...
Even blue-collar workers, however, often disguise the real anguish of their joblessness from friends and their own children. Birdie Gaston, 62, who lives in Harlem, was laid off as a packager for Alfred Dunhill, Inc. a week before Christmas. "I brood a lot, and I hurt inside," she says, but she has attempted to hide those feelings from her relatives. She feels "ashamed" that she has to collect unemployment compensation ($63 a week). Most of all, she misses the job. "When I am working, I feel 24 years old. When I am not working, I feel...
...filed suit against Cesar reported..."; "...other workers reported..."; "...one worker said..."; "...many farmworkers also complained..."; "...one woman who had worked 16 years in the fields described..."; "one worker who showed his income tax returns to a reporter..."; "Giorgio Aglipay ["a farmworker"]...reported..."; "...one farmworker told Dr. Paul Gaston..."; "one grape picker explained..." I have one question: why is the Crimson publishing this sort of crap? Kathleen Finn Teaching Fellow, Department of Psychology and Social Relations
...farmworker told Dr. Paul Gaston, who had admitted he was pro-union before he undertook the study, "The UFW took away all out rights, we can't work for the farmers where we have worked for years, husbands and wives can't work together, we have no say as to where we go. We can't complain. We are told to keep out mouths shut or we won't get an assignment. We are treated like sheep. We have no power at all, there is no such thing as freedom of speech. There is no election, there...
Only Alfred Drake, as Gaston's uncle, is an unalloyed delight though Agnes Moorehead as Gigi's worldly aunt is tartly amusing. As an inveterate and accomplished boulevardier with a mischievously saucy eye for maid or matron, Drake is a shameless charmer with voice that is pure gold. The score-much of it reprised from the film-is far and away the best part of the show. As for the negligible choreography, it seems rather like a course in ballroom deportment except for one cancan number, and anyone who can work up much excitement over the cancan...