Word: guys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salvation Army seems a depressing crew and the snow flakes seem to make the world a muddy mess rather than a winter wonderland. And it seems all too apparent, nowadays, that reindeer have foul breath and that nine out of ten Santas are phony while the other guy isn't a member of the union...
...revelations of corruption in the Teamsters Union and other unions. The business: whether or not to boot out the mighty Teamsters (1,400,000 claimed members), who had arrogantly elected Tough Boy Jimmy Hoffa their president (TIME, Oct. 14). Under the relentless prodding of President George Meany, a tough guy of another stripe, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. voted to throw out the Teamsters by a 5-to-1 margin...
This sort of versatile shifting defense demands a versatile anchor man and, says Layne, "Joe is the finest in the league. He doesn't pop like a lot of others. A lot of these guys hit high and hard, and there's a big pop when their shoulder pads bounce off the guy they're after. The pop gets the fans all shuddering, but the poppers are the guys who miss the tackles. Joe just doesn't miss...
...terse, well-constructed character study of a high school hoodlum. Arrested for assaulting a fellow-member of the school's basketball team, he is subjected to a subtly-conceived interrogation by a pair of police detectives, who finally reveal the frightened boy hiding behind the facade of a tough guy. Kopit's point may be a modest one, but he makes it with skill and ends up with the most theatrically accomplished undergraduate play produced here in recent years...
...jazzmen, in turn, have taken to scribbling. Lippincott. backed by his own quintet, recently recited a piece about how the guy in the combo feels when he is going way out ("We were all there waving at the hillside Picasso men who turned out to be saguaro cactuses . . . We were all there together, really, still, now, always, rotating, revolving, dancing, now, always"). The jazz accompaniments are both premeditated and improvised, but all of them are far too sketchy to stand by themselves. If the poets are sold on J. & P., most of the jazzmen are cooling on it. An exception...