Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schaap's unfortunate failure to write I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow , as such a profile, with his own impression in his own words, dooms the book to fall into the same class as Al Hirshberg's Yaz, or Hawk, about former Red Sox outfielder Ken Harrelson, or Mike Holovak's Violence Every Sunday. And who remembers them any more...
Philbin, entrenched in his District for 27 years, is 71 years old. His opponents have criticized him as a hawk on Vietnam and a conservative on most other issues...
There is the constant drone of some amplified speaker, and there is the drone of my little huddled affinity group, and the same beautiful girl keeps walking past trying to hawk the same stack of unbought Ailitant magazines, and she is adding her own drone...
...September primary to oust Philip J. Philbin (D-Mass.) from the Congressional seat he has held for 26 years. Philbin, whose District stretches from Fitchburg to Newton, is the second-ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee and many people consider the 71-year-old Congressman a hawk on Vietnam and an all-around conservative. Any resident of the Third District, including college students under 21, will be eligible to vote at the open caucus, which will be held at Concord Carlisle Regional High School...
...cast is uneven, and Director Gene Saks too often seems merely to have urged his actors toward assorted bedlam. Martin Gabel displays a finely arrogant condescension as the Hawk, who can sniff out Communist threats in unpopulated jungles, and David Burns as the Ambassador hilariously exhales his words like a trombone in anguish. A lavish campaign contributor, he storms that Washington doesn't even know where his post is. That is the play's problem as well, but the laughs are located at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater, and in a dry season they are thirst quenchers...