Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important, and they all underscore the basic point that Cambridge professional drama has under-gone a fundamental reorientation from previous years. In 1951, at the peak of the Brattle's success, one New York producer said, "There are two kinds of people in the theater today: those who like Mike Todd and those who like the Brattle." At long last, however, the plans for the Festival seem to indicate that the men formerly associated with the Brattle have discovered that maybe they can at least learn something from such men as Todd...
...emergency word was passed. Lieut. Commander Frederick J. Hancox, a Coast Guard ready rescue pilot, was jangled from his bed. With his four crewmen, he scrambled for his twin-engined Grumman Albatross, was airborne at 1:02 a.m. Grinding out over the sea, Hancox called into his lip mike: "Hello Yankee Victor Charlie Alpha Mike Sierra,* This is Coast Guard 2124 . . . Do you read? . . . Mike Sierra, this is 2124, request a long count from you on this frequency. Over." Back came the long "one-two-three-four . . ." from the ailing Constellation. The Albatross, following Mike Sierra's radio signal...
...this first-novel winner of the Houghton Mifflin award, Author Burdick gives a reverse twist to the cozy U.S. sociological convention that coarse, conservative fathers produce sensitive, nonconformist sons. It is a study of Mike Freesmith, whose father was a radical so militant he once smashed the family Christmas tree into bourgeois smithereens. To contrast his old man, Mike determines to become a "big wheeler and dealer." He starts rolling as a clean-limbed, sexually limber nihilist on a surfboard off the coast of South ern California. He is supposed to be getting an education; instead he is educating...
...figures that fear plus hate equals power. By manipulating the fear of poverty of California's "senior citizens" and exploiting general hatred of Communism, he hopes to become the real governor of California. In a not quite credible solution, his pal Hank removes the hard hand of Mike Freesmith from the public weal...
Novelist Burdick, who teaches political theory at the University of California, says that he originally intended his novel as "a study on the 'irrational' trends in politics," but it grew into a portrait of one man, Mike. As a novel, it has its structural and narrative faults. Still, it stands by itself as a disquieting, often fascinating portrait of a recognizable type of politician, a type who in real life, perhaps unfortunately, usually lacks a friend willing to dispose...