Word: jo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although it does not call for star billing, the part is one of the strongest and most complex on Broadway, and Grey treasures it as if it were a long-awaited inheritance. With his wife Jo, he has worked out a gradually intensifying makeup scheme that transforms his face from mere decadence at the outset to a gaping death's head by the end. In the desperate name of gaiety, he paws the girls, dons tights and wigs to join the chorus line, and dances with an all-but-naked fake gorilla...
...months remaining to him, Brazil's lame-duck President Humberto Castello Branco is restlessly pursuing his aim of completing the drastic remodeling of Brazil that he began after the army rebellion that overthrew Leftist President Joāo Goulart in April of 1964. During his drive to transform his country into a disciplined and modern society, Castello Branco has increasingly avoided Congress and simply started decreeing laws in what a top U.S. diplomat calls "an orgy of Calvinistic legislation." Calvinistic it may be, but it is a badly needed antidote for the orgy of inflationist and frequently pro-Communist...
...short, economic interests have displaced ethnic interests. But sociologists insist, with some justice, that this new melt in the melting pot extends chiefly to the political and economic spheres. In other areas, what they call "structural separation" persists. According to a theory first propounded by Sociologist Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, the U.S. is really a "triple melting pot," with the true cohesion growing within religious groups. An Irish Catholic is more likely to marry another Catholic (Polish, German or Italian) than a Protestant; similarly, a Protestant Swede tends to marry another Protestant (Finn, Dutch, Scotch, English). In religion...
...have to admit I thought of it," said Sharon, and the others concurred. But they didn't seem to be as intrigued by the prospect as their parents are and as they were before they came to Cambridge. Jo Anne leads tours for prospective students and their families. "When I show parents Harvard Law, their eyes light up," she said...
Lesley girls have their own false stereotype about Harvard men as the remark about "sophisticated" Harvard Yard indicates. There are two types of Harvard men, Jo Anne said with the smiling assent of the others. Either he's a clean-cut, with a black umbrella and a scarf (in a word, "preppie"), or he hasn't had a bath since September and he smells like...