Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vermont Sunday News. Elections over, the Senator declined to have his picture taken with a roving beauty queen, but Lawson clicked anyway. Bugged by the shutter. Teddy reddened, and the incident swiftly snowballed. Sunday News Publisher William Loeb, a New England Republican long immunized to the Kennedy magic, citing Lawson's confiscated film and torn camera case, said Teddy should apologize. The Senator, down in Washington presumably busy doing More for Massachusetts, said nothing...
...young playwrights mixed magic and mediocrity in the Experimental Theatre last evening. Marie-France Lathrop's mime--Others, I Am Not The First--was magical. Senior Jonathan Sisson's Minsky O'Ryan and the Magic Bathrobe provided most of the mediocrity...
Minsky O'Ryan and the Magic Bathrobe is not entirely bad. As Minsky, a man who destroys things, Lauent Weisman is very effective. He portrays Minsky with a forceful calm that the play lacks. Richard Black plays his dinner guest, an advertising executive, with the deliberate superficiality the role requires. But it is not much of a role, and Black's jittery movements and exaggerated expressions of joy only add to the chaos of Sisson's play...
...dead-end of "ghetto literature," is "the novel of manners." But he never does explain what he means. He says Bernard Malamud's writing, for instance, is "claustrophobic" and smacks too much of the ghetto. But is anyone's writing more claustrophobic than Jane Austen's? Is The Magic Barrel, a story of a Jewish matchmaker and his young client, more parochial in its problems and milieu than Emma...
Fake or not, it is easy to understand why so many of the young have been led to play Follow My Leader with Seymour. In the Salinger world, most things which trouble those in the process of growing up have been magically abolished (Salinger is said to complain that his true audience is too small to reach his books on the shelves). The Glass children have no need to do anything better than mother or father; they just are superior. Father Les ("Less") is a midget personage when compared with any of his offspring. Mother Bessie is a slightly comic...