Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couple of months. On opening day, April 22, 1964, there will be more than 200 pavilions in all. Judging by the renderings and models already on view, Flushing Meadow will be a maze of pleasure domes, some dazzling, some merely elaborate. Among them: »THE FEDERAL PAVILION, a hollow square hovering over a watery circle designed...
...Hollow Crown. Britain may not be able to budge General de Gaulle, but Britons are having no trouble bowling over Broadway. In a distressingly dreary season, one of the few dramas of distinction is the British holdover A Man for All Seasons. Nothing on the boards is as stylish as The School for Scandal, or saucier than Beyond the Fringe and its off-Broadway sibling. The Establishment. Non-British plays like Tchin-Tchin and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore are visibly sparked by the highvoltage acting of England's Margaret Leighton and Hermione Baddeley. Even...
...power without law can make laws, I do not know what subject he is in England that can be sure of his life or anything he calls his own." No king is a hero to his courtiers, not for lack of kingly heroism but because courtiers are courtiers. The Hollow Crown is deliciously spiced with the barbed candor of underlings: "King George IV had not been dead three days before everybody discovered that he was no great loss...
...Hollow Threats. But strikes, and threats of strikes, carry less wallop than they used to as industry relies more and more on machines and finds itself overloaded with productive capacity. Strikers recently stayed out for six months at the big Climax Molybdenum mine in Colorado; but the company, using supervisory help and semiautomated gear, was able to produce up to 65% capacity. Even the worst strike of recent times made little dent in the company ledgers; in 1959, the year of the 116-day steel strike, steelmakers earned 7% more than...
Joining Mr. Barton in The Hollow Mockery are Mr. Max Adrian, who fancies he is amusing as an effeminate and disgusting ambassador of Henry VII; Miss Dorothy Tutin, who fancies she is an actress, and proceeds to read a sketch of the Kings of England by the fifteen-year-old Jane Austen as if it were the work of Baby Snooks; and Mr. Paul Hardwick, who is plain enough. Musical interludes are provided by Mr. James Walker, a harpsichordist,--Mr. Barton, luckily, seems to have been unable to devise a way of making the harpsichord funny--and by three gentlemen...