Word: heros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wallace's anxiety-and the quick, almost gleeful expressions of shock by Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon-it was far from clear, however, that the general would damage the ticket. In some areas, he may strengthen it. A war hero, LeMay will probably appeal to many as a man of courage. As head of the Strategic Air Command for nine years (1948-57) and Air Force Chief of Staff from 1961 to 1965, he can hardly be dismissed as a mere eccentric. As a native of Ohio and a resident of California, he gives Wallace's pitch less...
...whaler captain, he has a mean word for everybody. Composer Deems Taylor? "What a punk!" His Mississippi steamboat-captain grandfather, Charles Henry Ruggles? "A terrible old tyrant-he had to be captain of the ship all the time." His father Nathaniel? 'Drunk all the time." His boyhood hero, Actor Richard Mansfield? "A fine actor but a mean bastard," To this day, he has only one answer when asked about the state of American music: "I think Sun Treader is the greatest composition" And his reply to the obligatory question about his remarkable longevity is always the same: He thrives...
...like the epic hero who must follow his own destiny to its fruition, Axel carries each sequence to a definite visual and dramatic conclusion. At the outset King Sigvor, who has slain their father, invites the sons of Hamund to make peace. Axel gives us separate sequences of them dressing their wounds, bathing, and drinking together, and ends with a slow pan across all the men sleeping side by side...
Refreshing in an entirely different way is That's Life (Tuesday, 10-11 p.m.). In this free-spirited musical lark, another hapless hero, Robert Morse, plays opposite a real-life doll with the unlikely name of E.J. (for Edra Jeanne) Peaker. Informal to the point of plotlessness, the series romps through a tomato surprise of old tunes and new ones, comedy sketches and big production numbers. Old Pro George Burns helped tie together the opening-night proceedings with cigar-chomping asides and monologues. Another guest, Tony Randall, contributed a mix of roguish, debonair and fumbling antics. Other celebrities will...
...author, an able freelance book reviewer, has obviously read a lot of fiction. That alone, however, is no guarantee of success when the critic turns novelist. Greenfeld's hero is a Jewish boy from Brooklyn becalmed on the long voyage to a Ph.D. He marries a Japanese painter, and they go to live near her parents in Japan. Like so many young men in novels these days, he pokes and prods his identity obsessively; after a few months in Japan he worries that he still feels like a New Yorker...