Word: jollyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This all could have been jolly enough had anyone taken the trouble to believe in it, or at least make it look good. Along with everything else, though, the Arctic looks like a melted dessert, the Viking village like a low-rent neighborhood in Disneyland, and the Vikings themselves like...
There are some books whose reviews should run upside down. They are the volumes which mainly add up to a series of short answers-tomes like the Guinness Book of World Records or the Baseball Encyclopedia. Seven hundred twenty-three home runs; 895 miles below sea level-these are the...
The best writers on that ever popular, ever portentous subject, the American character, tend to be members of the family-but by a sort of adoption only. They are not quite at ease at home. They look about them with a preternaturally bright, not overfond eye. They like to go...
No implication is lost in the metic ulous revival at the Long Wharf Theater, which tenderly evokes the Millers' tribal intimacy. Even so, the play could have been cut. Dick is too fragile a character to sustain interest, and his mooncalfing is made graceless by O'Neill'...
Stonehouse's far-flung interests and their problems have led some to suspect that he might have been killed. "He made enemies all over the world," says M.P. and former Parliamentary Private Secretary William Molloy. "At some point," speculated another colleague, "he may have crossed somebody's path...