Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walter Mitty. Confronted by Holmes, the reader's mind wanders to The Unicorn in the Garden, to The Night the Ghost Got In. He imagines that he is writing Walter Mitty: ta-pocketa, ta-pocketa, go the typewriter keys. He remembers Thurber's unsettling word games-mice in chimes, lips in pistol-and plays a game of his own that he has played before: her, hurt, rue, brute in Thurber; the battle of the sexes, the dogs. What hides in Holmes? SOLEM? No, it doesn't quite work. M-O-L-E does, though...
...most vividly iconoclastic new words generally come from the G.I.s, and so, in Viet Nam, the grunts spoke of slants and slopes, of Charley (Viet Cong) and Yards (Montagnard tribesmen) and White Mice (white-uniformed local police). Where they were was "the boonies of Nam"; everything else was "the world." Officials spoke windily of "winning hearts and minds," but the G.I.s shortened that to WHAM. To the airmen, the jungle was Indian Country, where you might end up either in the Hanoi Hilton (prison camp) or Buying the Farm (dead...
...Mice and Men Director Ed Zwick has decided that John Steinbeck's classic Thirties drama must be contemporary. Worth a look, but if the cast hasn't improved any don't feel obliged to stay...
LOEB MAINSTAGE. Of Mice...
...pathos in Of Mice and Men evades the Loeb and left me yearning for the written word, play or novel. I would not discouraged anyone from seeing it. I would only recommend that the novel be read beforehand to catch the beauty of Steinbeck. For the play complements yet never becomes the drama intervening between mice...