Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kraft Television Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). Mock Trial with Ed Begley...
...French mock hero of Five A.M. has a bad case of the hoo-ha's. His creator, Jean Dutourd. 36, is an accomplished satirical duelist (A Dog's Head, The Best Butter) who likes nothing better than to blood his pen on the foibles and pomposities of the French middleclass. He subscribes to the Andre Malraux dictum that France is "saturated with lies," and attacks those lies with what the French call "intellectual rigor." In Five A.M. this verges on intellectual rigor mortis, for Author Dutourd finds and leaves his novel's pathetic protagonist more dead than...
...favorite-son suitor of the White House, had nonetheless switched to a willowy, blue-eyed Stevenson named Helen, 28, a distant relative of Adlai Stevenson. Though Meyner was mum as ever about romance, Helen said they have been "friends" ever since May, when the governor was keynoter of a mock Democratic Convention at Ohio's Oberlin College (prexy: Helen's . daddy, William Edwards Stevenson). Paralleling Helen's legitimate claim of kinship with Adlai, Kentucky's back-pounding Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, darkest Democratic horse now visible at all, also clomped into the consanguinity act with...
...history, some political prisoner rehabilitated, some old scoundrel exposed. Every gesture may yet prove a fraud, or the Kremlin's masters-finding that small concessions lead to wider demands-may try to take it all back and revert to proved severities. But it was no longer enough to mock each concession as unreal, or to greet each one with the declaration that the Communists are still tyrants (which they are), or that the West must keep its guard up (which it must...
...Back Row. In 1954, Alben Barkley came out of retirement and went back to Washington as the junior Senator from Kentucky. But he was an aging man: his sight was failing; he was tired. Last week he went to Lexington, Va., to keynote the traditional mock Democratic National Convention at Washington & Lee University. Before a capacity crowd in the university gymnasium, he again stood up to give a scathing, ultra-partisan Democratic speech that, largely because of the humor in it, would not offend even the most partisan Republicans. Looking back through history, he credited all the good...