Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Papa Married a Mormon is a mock bucolic western in the vein of an Agnes de Mille ballet scored for six guns. It is rarely convincing, but frequently amusing, and few readers will want to revoke the "poetic license" Author Fitzgerald claims in salting the tales of his kith and kin. Take his Uncle Will, for instance -that's his gamblin' and killin' uncle. In a 15-hour poker session Uncle Will won the Whitehorse Saloon and helped the former owner forget his troubles by plugging him with his pearl-handled revolver. The Whitehorse was the hottest...
This season, animals are all the rage. Alice in Wonderland's sizable audience may have been more fascinated by such strange creatures as the Gryphon, Mock Turtle, March Hare and Cheshire Cat than by such stars as Eva Le Gallienne, Elsa Lanchester, Martyn Green and Gilliam Barber. On one hour of ABC's Mickey Mouse Club last week, moppets saw a succession of wild hares, lemurs, hamsters, pythons, lions, leopards, pumas and sharks. At the same moment, NBC's rival Pinky Lee Show was knee-deep in lions. Lassie and Rin Tin Tin are dedicated to proving...
Humble Pie. "When our number is 40, they mock and tease; when we're 39, they're down on their knees," runs an old academy jingle. However talented and rebellious, aspirants to this particular Olympus must first appease the gods-in-being by eating a certain amount of literary humble pie. An applicant must beg for admission in terms as carefully prescribed as an ancient Hittite ritual; his friends must sedulously woo the Immortals in his behalf. "Is your poetry any good?" snapped a windy old Immortal at Victor Hugo when he was seeking entrance. "I have been...
...carries the De Gaulle story only to mid-1942, but the tone is set, and it is as annoying as it is undoubtedly sincere. Even a hero's worshipers must be embarrassed to hear him refer to his wartime broadcasts as a "priestly duty," and to meet the mock-modest estimate: "In the struggle for liberation the one who answered for everything was still, in the last resort, my poor self...
John R. Thomson '57, HRYC President, said that Senator Knowland of California and Senator Morse of Oregon have tentatively agreed to preside at the mock Congress...