Word: max
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation about the time the Gay Nineties became gay, and it disappeared years before the Stanley Steamer and the suffragette. It might still be gone if it were not for the efforts of a Sedalia, Mo., piano peddler named John Stillwell Stark and an entertainer and pianist named Max Morath. Stark had the good sense to start publishing classic Negro rags like Maple Leaf Rag and Sunflower Slow Drag in 1899 when he was in late middle age; last year Morath, 36, began playing the rags on television-and has become a sort of folk hero of the spreading ragtime...
Andorra and The Firebugs. Swiss Dramatist Max Frisch dropped a couple of tons of irony on the New York theater last week, but the only one who got crushed was the playwright. Advance fanfare had it that Frisch, highly regarded and much produced in Europe, was the equal of his fellow countryman Friedrich Duerrenmatt (The Visit). Rarely has anticipation been so swiftly disabused...
...have rhapsodized about truffles and caviar, but few have been inspired to sing the praises of the lowly pea. One exception is Author Max (Barefoot Boy) Shulman, who has not only written a song about pea picking but speaks poetically of the peas' earthly journey toward "their succulent destinies." The reason for Shulman's enthusiasm is that while in college he worked as a pea picker for the Green Giant Co. of Le Sueur, Minn., where the pea is king. Green Giant is the U.S.'s largest canner of peas and corn, with 22 processing plants...
...stage left sit four actors (Max Adrian, John Barton, Paul Hardwick. Dorothy Tutin) in evening dress, their only props a coffee table with decanter and water glasses, large leather-covered books to scribble in with quill pens, and a portable lectern. At stage right stand a harpsichord, a piano, a trio of skillful balladeers and their accompanist, who provide a harmonic counterpoint of period music to the proceedings. The actors read letters, poems and memoirs by and about royalty, together with historical reminiscences and profiles sketched by hard-eyed courtiers and literary greats from Malory to Jane Austen...
...does not solve Reuben's. Passionately the psychologist tells her: "Your love is not enough! These children need discipline. Their lives are a never-ending battle for small victories. No one ever needed to succeed in any little way so much as these children do." The cli max harshly proves the point...