Word: misters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stocked cruisers for tons of ice cream. He ran a taut ship with an easy hand. One of the few public reprimands he ever handed out was when one of his destroyers strayed out of formation. Over his TBS (Talk Between Ships) radio, Burke snapped to the offending skipper: "Mister, that's a destroyer...
...Call Me Mister. What gives Bhutan real distinction is the fact that it is a country without an army-at the moment. The head of the government is youthful (27) Druk Gyalpo Jigme Wangchuk, whose name means Dragon King. Up to six months ago he ruled Bhutan (pop. 300,000) with the aid of a council of eight, 125 civil servants and a handful of palace guards. Among the Dragon King's closest advisers is bespectacled, English-speaking Jigme Dorji, 37, one of the delegation visiting Nepal. Although he is the King's brother...
...Harold Cooley, who was back home in North Carolina. While Rayburn knew that he could not get the two-thirds vote necessary to override the veto, he felt sure that he could win the simple majority necessary to show that Ike was flouting the clear will of Congress. But Mister Sam's famed political antenna wasn't working...
...play, Mister Johnson's death has not quite enough of Mister Johnson's life behind it, and seems, though genuinely moving, a little bit wheeled into place. Yet the play's great and steady virtue is that Mister Johnson is always flesh and blood and not just a personalized symbol. It is also a great virtue of the production that Earle Hyman plays the role with particular suppleness as well as appeal. As Mister Johnson's heartsick British judge and executioner, William Sylvester plays well too, and William and Jean Eckart have evocatively mounted the play...
Displaced Narrative. In portraying its altogether central figure, the play resorts, as perhaps it must, to peculiarly centrifugal stagecraft. There are too many episodes that, if vivid, are sketchy, hurried, discontinuous, that seem flashes of ethnic scenery rather than stretches of dramatic mileage. Mister Johnson not only concerns a man who cannot keep to the road; it unfolds its story with almost no road to keep to. It comes off a kind of displaced narrative: as Mister Johnson emerges neither native nor British, Mister Johnson emerges neither novel nor play. But if too fragmented and saltatory, it yields...