Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumvirate of Thomases--Dekker, Heywood, and Middleton--all of whom expressed a rare deep sympathy with the common man. Of the three Dekker was the most gifted; and Wellesley's Group 20 has wisely chosen for this week's offering his 357-year-old comic masterpiece, The Shoemaker's Holiday (based on a story by another Thomas--Deloney...
Dekker was an unsurpassedly keen observer of contemporary London life, if not a peeping Tom; and he gave us here a vivid picture of the artisan and aristocratic milieus. The finest social comedy of its age, Holiday has special appeal for us today: it presents pre-echos of the Horatio Alger story, champions the ideals of democracy (even the King proclaims that "love respects no blood, cares not for difference of birth or state"), and contains the first labor sit down strike in drama...
...Many Croutons? In Malibu, Calif., arrested in the fashionable Holiday House restaurant after pulling a knife on Chef Carlos Hernandez, slashing the wrist of a dishwasher, hurling a pot of hot coffee that struck a second dishwasher, Waiter John C. Burton explained to police that he was upset over the way Hernandez was mixing a Caesar salad...
Lady Sings the Blues has the tone of truth. Whether it is Singer Holiday's own style or Journalist-Friend William Dufty's professional hand, the book's deadpan manner is a little chilling. No matter how it is told, hers is a chilling story. Billie sings a sad, sad song...
...Billie Holiday was a "hip kitty," so she says, practically from the time she was born, 41 years ago, in a Baltimore slum. At six she was running errands for the girls in a local brothel so she could listen to their parlor phonograph. At 13 she had a police record already behind her. In New York she began her singing career. But that did not end her wayward life...