Word: julians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hero Julian Starke is a poet and a Briton and, consequently, unemployable -"too clever for an executive position, too vague for trade, and too feeble to shift cement bags." He has worked variously and unvigorously as a cabbage rooter, road mender, ice cream hawker, oil company minor-domo and smuggler. As the book opens, he lives in a derelict farmhouse in Gloucestershire, but he is a bohemian, not a beatnik. The distinction lies in the fact that he makes his bed once a week, writes coherent English, and laughs at himself now and then...
...JULIAN W. HAYDON...
...life insurance turned 80 last week, took time out to enjoy a birthday dinner at Manhattan's Union Club and to admire the hundreds of cards that festooned the bottle-green walls of his office in the Empire State Building. But otherwise, it was another working day to Julian S. Myrick. One of the best salesmen in the business, he has sold more than a million dollars' worth of insurance a year for the past two years to qualify for the Million Dollar Round Table, the profession's highest honor, attained last year only...
Meet the Queen. Julian Myrick started out in the insurance business as a $25-a-week applications clerk in 1898, soon struck up a friendship with another clerk, an athlete, organist and composer from Yale named Charles Ives. In 1907 they established their own office, soon were selling nearly $2,000,000 a year...
Arthur Penn has staged the play admirably. Jason Robards Jr. as Julian, Anne Revere as his older sister and Rochelle Oliver as his wife give solid performances. Maureen Stapleton's conniving sister is full of fascinating detail; as Julian's mother-in-law, a cool, unsentimental woman with a Negro lover, Irene Worth plays with wonderful style...