Word: max
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They tell the story about New York Banker Otto Kahn. It seems he was being chauffeured to work one day when he spotted a tailor's shop displaying the proud sign MAX KAHN, COUSIN OF OTTO KAHN. Enraged, the financier stopped the car, roared into the store and ordered Non-Relative Max to take the sign down forthwith. "Yes, sir," said Max timidly. Next day, Kahn drove by again and was greeted with...
World War I Ace Max Immelmann earned two, as did Corporal Adolf Hitler, and now U.S. teen-agers are buying them by the gross. Dug out of attics and curio shops and freshly minted by the thousands, the German Iron Cross has become the newest surfer's emblem and high school...
Some of the performances, however, nearly transcend their material. Jack Cassidy as the gossip columnist Max Mencken is unbelievably slick and professional. Michael O'Sullivan hams to a proper excess as a ten-time Nobel Prize loser who takes revenge on the world by trying to destroy its culture-hero, Superman. Bob Holiday's deadpan makes him perfect for the title role...
...only objection that can be raised to the poem. To write about yourself extrinsically and comically, as in the Dream Songs, is one thing: to sublimate your urge for self-projection in the posture you take toward a deliberately irrelevant subject is something else. Berryman is a little like Max Beckmann in his habits of constant self-depiction (which differs from self-revelation in that the latter is usually true), for running through Bradstreet is the image of the twentieth century poet in a tense pose of self-indulgence. But the worst that can be said of the poem...
...starter Pete Richert set down the Indians until trouble started with one out in the ninth. Two walks sandwiched around a double by Jim Landis loaded the bases and brought in the Nats' reliefer Ron Kline. Davalillo promptly singled to left, scoring two runs. Two more came in on Max Alvis's third hit of the day, and Sonny Siebert set the Senators down like docile fellows in the ninth...