Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, an olive was serving as a mock volleyball...
Skittering about the stage in mock retreat, Marian Seldes is awkward, angular, sexy-and touchingly vulnerable. She gives the finest feminine performance on Broadway. A graduate of Chicago's Second City Troupe, Troobnick brings to the play an improvisatory skill in portraying the contemporary personality who changes views, looks, and even voice in a matter of seconds...
...mock convention held last spring was heated enough to cause a walk-out of conservatives when Senator Charles Percy was nominated. But the conservatives who walked out were all from MIT and Holy Cross...
...existence; most Harvard Republicans were faithful to the tradition of their conservative founder. The biggest problem then, as now, was getting speakers. Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, billed as "one of the great orators of past centuries," was in Israel at the time of his planned speech at the 1952 Mock Convention. A Baptist minister eventually delivered the keynote, substituting for McKeldin's replacement. (The speakers program has always been plagued by bad luck--one of this year's speakers planned speakers fail-to come here because of a cracked...
...African mind. The huge breadbox mouth flaps open to emit the platitudes of white domination, the solace of the white man's religion, the equity of the white man's law. The cast play the colonizers of Angola and the colonized interchangeably, singing Brechtian ditties that sardonically mock the oppressors and vivify the laments of the oppressed...