Word: individualists
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...actor, Harrington sets up a series of charades that deftly mock the American scene. Yet there is little to tie the various charades together save their incisive cleverness. Each character type is presented and then lost in the rush of the following actor. Even Merko the Human Fly, an individualist, is left suspended, in this case on the Eiffel Tower...
...even appear there except for the formalities of campaign time. He does need a $420 deposit, ten supporters to sign a petition, and the patience to put up with a mixture of restrictions, frugality and party discipline that makes the average U.S. Congressman seem a money-gushing, stenographer-surrounded individualist by comparison...
Congratulations on your obituary of Colonel McCormick [April 11]. While I, a onetime Chicago resident, frequently disagreed with the colonel, I admired him with no tongue-in-the-cheek attitude. He was a great individualist; even his enemies admit that his breed of rapidly vanishing Americans is sorely needed in the rapidly spreading regimentation of citizens in these United States, once dedicated to the rights of the individual...
...still at its height, he walked Manhattan's 57th Street with his canvases under his arm, vainly trying to interest the dealers in his own new approach to painting. But when the slap and dab of abstract-expressionism began to become a bore, the time was ripe for Individualist Hultberg...
...water. He has tilted with eloquence and venom at many an Irish figure and foible in his plays and in the massive six-volume autobiography poured out over the past 15 years (TIME, Nov. 15). Ireland banned four of the volumes, but the Irish theater knows no censorship. Arch-Individualist O'Casey was free last week to speak his unconventional piece from the stage...